Friday, February 10, 2012

any ghost will reassure you

just by being a ghost

that no story is resolved


the whispers echo in diminishing circles

you can't make them what they're saying

but you know what they mean


and in all the gossip that sounds in the branches

you confront your own story

related in the history of someone else


and see him staring at you

from the glint of light on some flesh and blood

shoulder that is lifted in his midst


as you both head toward a respite

before continuing this compulsion

he stuck in this earth with an occasional protrusion


of the tongue at the unsuspecting photographer

while you go looking for new skin in inhibit...



Content (c)2008-2012 Philip Milito.

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