photo by Asako Narahashi, from Half Awake and Half Asleep in the Water (2008)
i remember when i tried to save a drowned thing.
i was so busy trying be the lifeguard
that i did not pay attention
to the water rising up
at my own neck.
afterwards, i held onto your memory like a raft.
but months later, when you come
face to face
with old haunts,
sometimes you learn
that they make better ghosts
than they do human beings.
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