Spillway Review
Halloween 2005
Halloween 2004

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                   Ghost
               Kay Vibbert

A swan gestures across Cedar Lake,
his throat full, an eyelet path
before him.

Branches bend low along the water,
heavy from winter's mistaken return.

Eve turns dark as muscadine.
I open the window toward
the hills, and hear paper chains
rattle apart from madness.

I step inside you, far off, a ghost.
swagger toward the sounds
of leaf smoke breathing,
the hiss of rain over the eaves.