

Anything So Utterly Destroyed
What would have been my right hand—
delicate fingers discolored a bit,
a ghost of a ring, a seam at the wrist—
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
What would have been my right hand—
delicate fingers discolored a bit,
a ghost of a ring, a seam at the wrist—
I have been free
but didn’t know myself.
I won’t be free again, but now I know
Winter sticks
between our ribs:
lightless shale, bayonets of ice
and last September’s briars.
Ghost flesh sears easily, like the skin of xeroderms.
This is why so few hauntings take place at noon.
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