#the body as a haunted house

Ed Simon, from Who’s There?: Every Story Is a Ghost Story

[Text ID: “loss, betrayal, and trauma is something that must be exorcized from the psyche before healing can take place.” Just because we might believe ourselves to be done with ghosts doesn’t mean that ghosts are done with us. Phantoms so often function as the allegorical because whether or not specters are real, haunting very much is. We’re haunted by the past, we’re haunted by trauma, we’re haunted by history.]

hieu minh nguyen, from “staying quiet”/ anders krisár, the birth of us (boy),the birth of us (girl)

swordheld:

“I want to know what it means to survive something. does it just mean I get to keep my body?”

— Life of the Party, ‘We All Got Burnt That Summer’ by Olivia Gatwood
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Franz Wright, from The Beforelife: Poems; “Empty Stage”

[Text ID: I’m a ghost / that everyone can see;]

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from This Way to the Sugar

[Text ID: A body filling with ghost stories,]