Equilux

How does a notion attach
To a name? How does meaning
Hang around while it changes?

People chatter about ghosts,
Whether to believe in them,
Exhaling great clouds of ghosts.

You don’t know what you’re saying.
You’ve no idea what it is
That floats around as idea.

Here’s a fragment means equal,
Which word comes from that fragment
Itself. Equi. And meanwhile,

Here’s a paired fragment means light.
Watch how these ghosts shine like gowns,
Long trains trailing on the ground.