Ghost Town

I wonder where I came from

this is not the same companion.
It was close to a dream

but it’s over.
Now is the longest I’ve been

without one; I almost

I would take myself out to the pier.
It was the people stranded

they lit from above and below.
The screen

door opens slightly, a tourist

Winter Wave

An illness flexed between us. Is there no sense in you no sense in which I am

simultaneously tenuous and unworried.

You previously said, There is no back-sense of time. There are no rights com-

promised with desire. Was it that felt

nice. To be called you on the phone. Were I retained like a good enough guest

like your fever having stepped into

mine. An endoscopic light branches into backrooms. Where I caught your last

feeling for the text
needled among us

Riley Ratcliff (they/she) is a writer from San Antonio, Texas (Yanaguana). They currently live on Narragansett land in Providence, Rhode Island, where they are an MFA student at Brown University. Recent work can be found in Annulet, Poetry Northwest, Fence, Two Peach, and elsewhere - ourcorrespondence (at) protonmail (dot) com