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