Love Poem: A Custody of Ghosts
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Written by: Johnette Loefgren

A Custody of Ghosts

Silently...
   broken 
fingers
court the notion,
painfully 
embracing
the very fabric of your 
dreams

once hopelessly lost,
now...
perhaps to find
solace in those ghostly
arms,
enshrouding some
misguided love,

a marriage 
undertaken
 in the 
worlds
between
the waking and the
midnight hour,

you strain to see yourself
pronouncing
the sweetest of sacraments,
a ring around the body
brightens,
unspoken testaments
to purify the air,

and you are there,

tucked between
a custody
of
ghosts.