Today’s Poem

Small Talking With a Ghost

After the bi-plane buzz wore off,

she still floated for weeks, into arms

of children. She taught them ABC’s

and taught me to read the iambic line

aloud. After eating barbeque in Brooklyn,

walking arm in arm, mouth to mouth

pass brownstones and the decade’s

momentary decay, she turned the prop

once or twice before it caught, taking

her and our old-fashioned fantasy away.

-Jason Braun