shadow thoughts

today I thought of shadows
spidery abstractions
sneaking up on house plants
gray-grass tendrils under apple trees

tonight my hands are being followed
dark ghost forms dancing
typing on my desk

I am recalling a ladder in 1973
affixed to a crooked garage in a backyard garden
and again in a drawing
again the shadows
crawling up shingles
growing slowly in the sun

                                                                    
                  © Chuck Beals 2002