Showing posts with label Rae Armantrout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rae Armantrout. Show all posts

Monday, 28 October 2019

Ghosts


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It's Halloween soon, which means some spooky poetry is called for!




Unbidden - Rae Armantrout

The ghost swarm.
They speak as one 
person. Each
loves you. Each
has left something
undone. 

*

Did the palo verde
blush yellow
all at once?

Today's edges
are so sharp

they might cut
anything that moved. 

*

They way a lost 
word

will come back
unbidden.

You're not interested
in it now,

only 
in knowing
where it's been.