- this time of year and
- ghosts come back,
- begging for another chance.
- they hover on the threshold
- between
- what can be no more and what has never been.
- at first glance they appear to insist on the worn patterns:
- girls who will gather narcissus;
- boys whose affairs with noise never ceases;
- the exhausting prospect of life inexorably repeating itself.
- but what they mean is suggested
- by the lighting of a candle and the wavering flame,
- by the drifting smell of pine through the trees,
- by love that varies constantly.