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 “okay,”

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 she’s married again,

we’ve become friends, and has twin girls

with her freckles thrown in their faces.

Sometime I pretend I’m an unmarked grave

—everything 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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