Wednesday, December 21, 2016

38/52: the white earth



when I am speaking to ghosts
I prefer to be walking in the woods

and I prefer it to be in winter,
snow crunching beneath my boots

as I carry on the one-sided conversation
reliving with the dead

words that cannot be resurrected
arguments that cannot ever be won

I stand next to the frozen stream
knowing the ice is not thick enough to hold me

and I tell the ghosts enough for now!
and sometimes

sometimes

the wind takes them then

and I am left with only the white
white earth.


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