there is no need for you to summon my ghosts they always hover near shimmering afterimages at my vision’s periphery murmur low incessant in curve
Tag: Loss
April Fools Day
I tell myself it is unexpected snow in tonight’s forecast Mother Nature’s cruel April Fools’ joke that makes my joints ache chills me to the
Coffee Klatch
In memory of Lieselotte Porter 1925-2018 another empty chair another empty corner only resurrection assured this Easter morn are my ghosts who brokers the introductions?
An Exchange Quick and Quiet
you held me in tender embrace in your deepest heart we lived together laughed together dreamed together breathed together unfathomable that anyone could take my
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Waltz of Spirits
the floor stretches before me black and white checkerboard tile feet glide soundlessly to the waltz in my head my arms arched as if partnered
The Heart of Winter
Originally published by the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective my heart a block of sculptured ice buried deep behind steel ribs hung with icicles offering dagger-sharp
alabaster
who am I without my losses without my ghosts to haunt the hours? grief has carved me sharply since girlhood with rasps and chisels unforgiving
Ghosts
I dream of my dead vivid technicolor hauntings in wee morning hours just before waking I sit up with a start heart thudding disoriented morning
