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Hollow-Throated Hauntings

  Pain knocks my  throat and I can’t  see it when I look straight  down my open mouth.  There is no bulge  in the neck hollow,  no pulsing shows the thorn’s roost. Nothing proves the dull ache  which isn’t a cold but won’t go away.  The fear is from the woman who  looked in her throat and saw nothing  but the next moment was gone from an embolism or aneurysm.  My father was ghost hollowed and  gut frightened by the funeral.  He and mother made the  promises of caution that I too have made. Living without me, I worry you might come to be comfortable with hollow-throated hauntings. I tilt and swallow to see if  the pain lessons or grows.

Copyright © December 2001 Molly Johnson


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