A contemporary poem about ghosts with borrowed faces, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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My ghosts arrive wearing borrowed faces. I recognise the mouth before the voice. Each one asks for the old room back. I give them a chair, not a name. By dawn, the faces have loosened. The house is mine in a less certain way.
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