i should not have been
left to my own devices
this way, i am discovering things
i would not have
discovered before
like perhaps the ghosts
i was so convinced
were haunting me
were just corpses
and it was i that was the ghost
left behind by my own body
forever haunting the
aftermath of laura
my fears are still buried
in my mother's fury
and my dad's dejection
still in the beams of the shop
tea burns in my throat
the sun scorches my back
we never left
the rubble of the storm