keep in touch

I keep

a coffin on the empty desk

beside my own in the sunstroked room –

blooms of tissue paper, the perfume of designer shoes

ghosts of what once voluptuoized within that cardboard earth, and the corpse-

white letters from all the wonderful people

who promise to write for a while

then forget altogether

they abandoned

me.

Image:

“Balloon over Luxor, Egypt.” By Marcosleal derivative work: Pro2 (talk) – Balloon_over_Luxor_-_Egypt.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6564870