digital photoart: ralph murre
A Case for Ghosts
by
Sara Clancy
Though
you think otherwise
I
am aware of an intrusion into the day
that
feels like any afternoon in reverse
where
conversation is complete
recollection
plays the radio
and
we are all present.
To
arrive here you need nothing
like
faith. Though I believe in memory
don't
you? These dubious apparitions
insist
on clarity, if only the relief
of
your forehead glimpsed against
the
steady shade of my hand.
In
the end I will trade the familiar
cold
spot with all its calibrations of doubt
for
evidence of your dazzling absence
in
the instant you cool your coffee,
your
inexplicable breath
warm
and expired.
~
previously published in Houseboat
