crushed into tarmac
he watches blood seep
through infinitesimal cracks
the ghost becomes
a whisper in the grass
perpetually falling
he remembers only
the approaching car

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The Memory of a Ghost by Joanna M. Weston
originally published April 29, 2009

 

 


Joanna M. Weston has had poetry, reviews, and short stories published in anthologies and journals for twenty-five years. Her middle-reader, Those Blue Shoes, was published by Clarity House Press; and a poetry collection, A Summer Father, was published by Frontenac House of Calgary.

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