Let's Become a Ghost Story by Rick Bursky
Author:Rick Bursky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 2020-02-15T00:00:00+00:00
2.
Her body was an actress, condensation
floating above a river after sunrise, or the river
lying below the condensation, depending
on whether she was the antagonist or protagonist.
Over breakfast she said she was leaving.
I think I replied with a simple âokay,â
though I might have just sobbed.
On our last morning together, she gave me a box
of pencils imprinted with my name.
This was years before I began writing.
Sometimes I pretend sheâs married again,
weâve become friends, and has twin girls
with her freckles thrown in their faces.
Sometime I pretend Iâm an unmarked grave
âeverything I know about absolution
tells me this is inevitable.
I never used the pencils until today
when I sharpened all of them down to nubs.
She would be flattered by this;
everything was a compliment to her,
even my name, a pile of shavings in a silver cup.
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