- Girl Held by Ghost
You carved his name in your ribssent him to hell, set him to dustnotes, motes, gave him shoes,wheels, knives, kept him walkingupright on the riverbanksent him down in the currentin a shower of scales, pulses,in a cage of eel bones, silt; you areseraphic, light as thrown salt,where he caught you still and countedwhen he held you still, scattered,grain-serious, serious,serious still.
Allison Lee Blyler is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia, the author of a poem-series turned children’s book, and a caretaker of urban wilds. She teaches in the Writing Program at Boston University.