Letter to a Ghost

by Sharon Scholl

I must choose words carefully

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to contact someone shapeless, timeless.

What can I write about my life

without you, that would make sense

or translate to the state that holds you

in the soft containment of your being?

Only the past remains between us,

forgotten or transformed by memory.

Do ghosts recall? Do familiar voices

trail you like whispers from long ago?

Between us, there is nothing left but silence,

no forwarding address.

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Sharon Scholl

Sharon Scholl is a retired college teacher who convenes a poetry critique group and maintains a website (freeprintmusic.com) of original music and poetry for small, liberal churches. Her poetry chapbooks, Seasons, Remains, Evensong, are available via Amazon Books. Her poems are current in Third Wednesday and The Bluebird Word.