Wednesday, March 25, 2026

ON THE STYX

 

Though the weight of a ghost is slight it isn't
Nothing and 175 entering at once have made
The boat ride low in the water. At first
The children are impressed by how serious
It is to be dead, looking over the edges
("They're called gunwales," says Dina)
At the skeletal fish or up at the grey birds
Hovering in the windless sky but then
Laila makes a face at the other Laila
And they both start giggling helplessly.

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