KENTISH GALES IN MAY

On nights 
like these, your ghost
does linger. In every

corner the wind blows
in to sweep you out
without success.

My eyes follow the air
as it storms across
my table, sucks

up paper, dust, but leaves
the misty memories of death
behind the nook

right by my desk. Indelible
like the spot of sick,
the imprint of 

your body wrenching
every minute 
over days, seven

weeks, to be exact. Too long
a time, too short 
a year.

Ronja Vieth, PhD, specializes in American Gothic Literature, and some of her poetry reflects that. Otherwise friendly and joyful, her writing has appeared in national and international journals and calendars, such as the Cincinnati Review, Otherwise Engaged, Southern Poetry Anthology: Texas, Brooklyn Review, Collective Humanity: An LGBTQ+ Anthology ‘metamorphosis,’ The FEEL Magazine, Book of Matches, ROAR Magazine, The Southwestern Review, Whispers of the Seasons – A Contemporary Haiku Anthology, and others. She works as writer and life-coach all over the world. Her latest non-fiction guidebook, Pet Sit Like a Pro, is available on Amazon.