THEORIES ON WHAT A GHOST IS MADE OF:
- all the sleep i used to have
- all the exhales of doors closed
- Tiredness when it hungers
- a rose
- but one drawn with pencil and paper
- then eaten
- we are told we might be at Peak Grief
- but they keep digging
- and finding more grief
- the reply you thought of wet in the water but can’t remember, now that you are dry
- almond farmers purposely draining the aquifers
- our chief export is Scarcity
- a ghost is an aquifer
- but instead of water:
- grief
- as in: Stages of
- as in: On Stage
- as in: Perform this grief for us please
- dust
- which is mostly skin forgetting
- about 6 years of sobriety
- give or take 2 or 3 depending on who you ask
- congestion and/or traffic
- one could argue a ghost is just traffic
- have we discussed breath? breathing
- i am sorry
- i am such an afraid thing
- like a ghost, trapped in wall
- a ghost
- like the farm
- like the apples we picked there as children
- it’s a shopping center now
- they designed the brand-new buildings