on good days
air would leave her lungs
accompanied by a name of someone we didn’t know
or a place she never visited
other days she didn’t say much at all
or asked if we went to prom together
all those years ago
and sometimes we’d tell her we did
because we missed the creases
in her cheeks
that were mostly bone now
and a ferris wheel of thinning veins
but within the carrion of indeterminable flesh Read more...