Where We Meet

I have been following the trails 
of familial ghosts;
watching the dusky horizon, 
the moonrise,
the gilings of ways taken and lost.

Where sky and dust merge
you also may see your lineage and kin,
their names are written under your skin.
Ancient they are, seconds are their wombs.
They shape each rim and verge -
emerge there as your thoughts. 

Those we have known and have known not,
their shirttails dangling, their anatomy dwindling
leave and reform under our breath.
We twine both life and death on one vine,
awake together in the same dream.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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Lamoureux Avatar
August 12, 2019 at 11:39 AM
My pleasure.
Ashford Avatar
August 12, 2019 at 9:20 AM
Ha! they can infest our lives after life just as they did in life. Just kidding often they are an infinite love connection Thanks for the read.
Lamoureux Avatar
August 12, 2019 at 9:03 AM
I am often visited by dead relatives in my dreams. I am always amazed at how lively they are.
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