I found another of your ghosts.
This one, an unanswered email,
.
with its genial demand for a speedy
reply. Did you call me, as usual,
.
right after hitting SEND to see
if I could “pull it up on my computer”?
.
It was short. A joke and a few words,
all in caps, asking me to phone home.
.
It’s a dream fragment now, a bone
to pick, with a charm inside, potent
.
as a bedside echo, this virtual visitation,
your admonition to stay in touch.

 
 
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Sara Clancy
Sara Clancy

Sara Clancy is a Philadelphia transplant to the Southwest.  Her chapbook Ghost Logic won the 2017 Turtle Island Quarterly Editors Choice Award. Among other places, her poems have appeared in Off the Coast, The Linnet's Wings, Crab Creek Review, The Madison Review, Misfit Magazine, Avatar Review and Verse Wisconsin. She lives in the desert with her husband, their dog, two ordinary cats and a psychotic cross-eyed one.