Through a Small Ghost by Chelsea Dingman

Author:Chelsea Dingman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

(I REFUSE TO PRAY)

That’s a lie. But Jesus, I don’t know

you or your father.

My father & daughter are dead

& I am not equal to this

anger. I am the south Florida summer

rains that know no mercy. I am the knife

-edge of night. The edge of the pond

where someone once drowned.

Where have you been hiding?

Green blades of grass are ghosts

now. It’s winter. Forty degrees.

Frost has set in. The alligators

have disappeared from water holes.

Only the crows sit on tile roofs, waiting

for what we’ll throw away.

Charm me. Harm me. It’s all the same.

In the distance: a pink sky. Sirens.

A stoplight, changing on a timer.

See my stomach? Look: it sags

like a six-month-old balloon. The skin

stretched into a makeshift shrine.

Can you hear me? I want

less sky. Less sun. Less

weather. Listen: the wind

is blessing every door.

In the hush of night

-fall, I almost hear snow,

even here. I am almost

home, in this body. Almost

something holy.

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