At the End of the Long Summer by Marianne Szlyk

Callie, like a ghost,

walks on my chest in the dark.

In the light, she is

a husk curled up on

my lap, as small as a bug,

a dried poppy

that could shatter

at any moment.

Marianne Szlyk is the editor of The Song Is... Her second chapbook, I Dream of Empathy, was published by Flutter Press.  Recently her poem was selected by Red Bird Chapbooks for its Weekly Read.  She encourages you to send work to her magazine. For more information about it, see this link: http://thesongis.blogspot.com/