For Immediate Release:
Making Ghosts
By Shaun M. Baer

When a ship is found at sea and there is no one aboard, no signs of crew nor shipment, nor life at all;
The empty vessel floating on the waves of the ocean,
The thing becoming something else,
Mutating into a life rather than a function,
And we begin our mythologies
Our explanations
Our reasons for its existence
Our stories
Our endeavors into thought framed with only a few facts before the circumstance becomes understood:
The boat was not properly tied to the dock
But does our love with its mystery really end at those facts,
Or does it continue in a romantic fashion,
Pulling us back into the possibilities of our own possibilities:
A web of ourselves projected onto the occurrence of something we want to believe was not just a freak accident of human error.

These things lie on the edges of cultural consciousness,
Floating without crew,
Vessels of something understood,
It’s reasons forgotten to us,
A Ghost Ship of attraction,
An empty boat of half-truths,
A phantasm in the shape of our past floating through our rooms at night, speaking in broken english and images of obscurity.