Not yet a ghost
A light still operates inside
the phone box with its red paint
flaking off the grid of panes.
A corona of moths searches
for an entrance. Inside, a shroud
of cobwebs embodies the space,
like a sketch of someone
stood waiting for an incoming call –
but the receiver dangles
on its cord, encased in web,
and no voice asks again and again
for a word with the spiders.
Rebecca Gethin lives on Dartmoor. She has had two novels published by Cinnamon Press who also published her second poetry collection, A Handful of Water. A pamphlet called A Rowan Sprig is to be published by Three Drops in a Cauldron in 2016 and another pamphlet is looking for a home. She is a Hawthornden Fellow and her web/ blogsite is www.rebeccagethin.wordpress.com