Empty Classroom Comments

That's a chilling admission at the end, that is, you see the ghosts and know they're really present. It reminds of the film from 1990s in which a little boy tells his therapist, I can see dead people. You took an apparently ordinary setting, lifted a veil from our eyes and revealed the ghosts who linger in the place. The eerie effect is similar to one of my poems you liked, THE HOUSE OF MANY ROOMS. In both poems, a disturbing reality is uncovered, but whether it is a projection of the heated imagination or actual ghostly presences remains open-ended. However, in reading your poem, I'm inclined to believe in the ghosts like the speaker!

Is it the feeling of loneliness in a crowd....? Are you seeing some spectral figures or are they unfriendly, ghost like humanbeings? I visualize Nika sitting in the front row alone... so alone! A eerie experience poetically conveyed! !