your ghost.

in my dreams last night

you were walking circles

around me

haunting me

deeper than any obsession

Kristin Hersh could exacerbate

your absence chokes my breath

palpable, with the heavy weight

of a thousand's thousand ungiven kisses

i think last night

you were driving circles

around me

the heft of your flesh over mine

is a feeling i know not

but ache for all the same

how to close the wound

when only your phantom fingers

can ever touch its frayed edges?

in my dreams last night

you were walking circles

around me

Author's Note

excerpt & title used from "Your Ghost" by Kristin Hersh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VA8uaumikU

Reviews

[SpokenWord]

I have never been haunted by any ghosts even loved ones, I don't know if I would enjoy it really. It is hard enough to move on without them being attached and keeping me lost in the past and the present hurt of not having them. Beautiful writing or is it a tribute :) Nicely done.

[An owl on the moon]

Such beautiful, bittersweet echoes here... intimate distance that aches for what could have been... So intricately woven with threads of emotional substance..

[Zeitgeist Manifesto]

Epic poem.
I was lost in your words.

[Robin]

I slipped deep into this poetic , into that sea of seperation , of faces untouchable but of an engulfing presence - this is soul speak .

[OT]

ah a powerful write Jennie! I love - "how to close the wound when only your phantom fingers can ever touch its frayed edges?" strong longing in these lines - the touch - the ghost! nice!

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

how to close the wound
when only your phantom fingers
can ever touch its frayed edges?

a heartbreak can only be cured by one person, the one who broke it. Excellent verse.

[c.m.]

the heft of your flesh over mine
is a feeling i know not
but ache for all the same

I can most definitely relate....and that is my favorite part. Another genius piece, that brought me to tears. Lovely.

[The Analog Kid]

"your absence chokes my breath
palpable, with the heavy weight
of a thousand's thousand ungiven kisses..."

A haunting by someone you long for and cannot have.