The Hamlet Project

The image of a kingly skeleton
Breaking out of its tomb is so
Perfectly Halloween.
It makes me want to see the Ghost
As only bones
To see his hip joints rolling in his sockets
As he walks his martial walk
Along the battlements.
Despite the fact that the ghost has expressions –
That he looks angrily or offended or frowns,
I somehow want just his bones
For his bones to frown
For his body to rattle
To see his ribs as he breathes,
To watch his spine shift when he turns his head
To see his jawbone wave as he speaks, which he will, shortly.