This poem is taken from PN Review 230, Volume 42 Number 6, July - August 2016.
Music for Ghosts
As an offering to the ghosts
I left some music playing
when I shut the door
on the empty house.
Even when a house is full
of ghosts we say it’s empty,
empty when you step out
and there’s no one left inside
breathing. ‘Lost in Music’ by Sister
...
I left some music playing
when I shut the door
on the empty house.
Even when a house is full
of ghosts we say it’s empty,
empty when you step out
and there’s no one left inside
breathing. ‘Lost in Music’ by Sister
...
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