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    Ghost
    Ghost
    Ghost
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    Ghost

    By Cat Webling

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    Sometimes the voices of the past are like ghosts in your future. Always waiting in the shadows to see you again. This collection of poems focuses those ghosts, and invites them to tell their story. Good, bad, neutral, or nonsensical, each will have its turn to ask, "what do you remember? Where do you go from here?"

     

    The images I can still see
    They chatter from their pages
    In conversation filigrees
    Of gold that glittered from your hands
    When you held them out to me

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCat Webling
    Release dateJan 19, 2022
    ISBN9798201125646
    Ghost
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    Cat Webling

    Cat Webling is an actress and author based in Kansas. She started writing professionally in 2018 when she published her first novel, Artificial Intelligence. Since then, she has released several poetry collections, two short story collections, and a wide variety of articles and blog posts on her website. She continues to write from her home, which she shares with her loving partner, adorable son, a very small lion, and a one-eyed wonder cat.

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      Book preview

      Ghost - Cat Webling

      Dedicated to the people who brought me to where I am now, even if they’re no longer walking with me. Thank you, and safe travels.

      Table of Contents

      You Left a Dent

      We Talk in Dreams

      We Are People

      I Choose How to Paint My Skin

      I Am Now Two and Twenty

      White Wall

      Angel of Mine

      Must I Beg You for Care

      Ghost

      This Is My Heart

      Tick...Tock

      It Is Dark When I Wake Up

      Happy Birthday

      Hours, hours, hours

      A cup of tea

      Good morning world

      Upon the stairs I dreamed of

      Do not tell

      Funny little leaf

      The Wind Is Fair Enough Today

      Seaside

      It Is A Wave

      I Run on a Kinescope

      A Prayer to Mnemosyne

      Tomorrow

      One More Night

      What Use

      An Open Book

      Come Back Moon, My Old Friend

      It is

      Wrapped in ribbons and pretty bows

      It's nice to see you again

      Seeds

      I am your light

      Sparkling crystals

      Clouds

      Springtime

      As You Do

      Sunlight

      Masquerade

      Below

      YOU LEFT A DENT IN my bed

      that should not be empty

      because when you're by my side

      the world is complete

      and i am complete

      and it is good

      you left a dent in my bed

      that should not be empty

      because if it is empty

      I am a canyon with no river

      swallowing emptiness

      with no reason to show

      you left a dent in my bed

      that should not be empty

      and i cannot help

      but stare at it

      and wonder when

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