That Old Ghost of us
for a moment I thought I was her
stuck in the glow of you
clinging to the electric warm all knowing light of you
how comfortable she must feel moving back and fourth in the square of yellow light of our old house
drinking hot tea with soy milk and honey and admiring it presently in our old chipped mugs
For a moment I let me feel these things
and feel what it feels like to be a snapshot inside a snapshot of someone else’s ghost.
In that brief amount of moment I thought I was her
But turning around to meet my reflectionYour glow emptied from my body like sugar from their paper packets
I saw only myself and
and that old ghost of us
forever writin’ bitch poetry






