ghost

take

ghosts, they’re

hosts to their own

haunting,

wanting some

attention for the

retention of their

myth, as

if they

existed, each

twisted dumb

fake

succubus

this

succubus,

incredulous, asks

when her

men in their

tombs will house

wombs and the

coitus in death’s

somnus be as

fertile to

beguile for a

miss

Mike Ferguson is an American permanently resident in the UK and published widely online. His most recent print work is the chapbook Precarious Real [Maquette Press, 2016] and the music poems anthology Yesterday’s Music Today co-edited with Rupert Loydell [Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2015]. A retired English teacher, he co-authored the education text Writing Workshops [Cambridge University Press, 2015].

Image by Charmaine Morgan

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