| Ghost | ||
| Sometimes I can still feel my right hand, like a best friend; weighted, warm. | ||
| Sometimes Mom looks for a tissue or the book lying among my covers and I reach for it, then I remember I cannot reach with that hand ever again. | ||
| Sometimes a prickle crawls across my cheek, and that right hand tries to rise from the grave, moved to scratch. The fingers, palm, wrist, and arm that I remember don't know enough to know peace. | ||
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