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Ghost Pulp

Hub of a shattered mining town,

its shards cached by nettles and ferns.

Where fragments of antique china lodge

in bituminous soil-teething in reverse-

and the air sags with homesick molecules.

Not a clearing, but a huddle of trees

leaning over this sunlit cistern like a crowd

around someone's sidewalk collapse.

Mindful of any contagion still smoldering

in the razed foundations within.

Beneath the devil's club, the headboard

of an iron bed frame. Still deeper,

that sleeper dreaming without a pillow.

Hammered down. Away from the stream,

mossed-over railroad ties retreat

into the understory's Braille translation

of whatever swept through the place.

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