Revenant City

William Keckler
Mar 29, 2024

They wear the human clothing
of time again. I think most planned
on being sensibly dead,

stepping away, past. A sensible
approach to the impossible.

I host them. Dear Now-and-Then.
Our sweetness and our dead ends

continue in dreams. Just last night
I had to move away from them

again, in their dream of being

desperately close as birth seems.

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William Keckler

Writer, visual artist. Books include Sanskrit of the Body, which won in the U.S. National Poetry Series (Penguin). https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/532348.