Tuesday, December 7, 2010

ghost pain

ghost pains

it's philosophical, really,
the way the pain stays with you
even after it has faded

a sensation so hard to express
not so much a tingling or actual feeling
but the memory of a feeling

it is the way a terrible hurting
leaves its mark and somehow scars
tattooing its name on your body

or, rather, the memory of a body ravaged
taken to the brink of something profoundly other
beyond the conception of any mind

the hauntological implications
of the ghost pains creep
until a poltergeist it becomes

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