A Lament from Ghosts

Something unfolds
the splintered
branch its numerous self

petals violently
under the torrent
abundant pale

flesh breaks
into bronchioles
sucking the atmosphere

I lie awake trying
to remember the post
humous dreams of

where I left you

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Tiffany Elliott
The Journal of Radical Wonder

Tiffany Elliott's (she/her) debut book, Bones Awaiting the Blaze, was awarded the 2022 Hillary Gravendyk Prize. She is asexual, neuroatypical, and disabled.