“I treasure our nights together roaming through these empty hallways”
Ghost Sonnets by TS S. Fulk
Assemblage Art by Claudio Parentela
Dream Ghost
You haunt me in my dreams
like a sucking lamprey
stealing vitae and mind
In my dreams I cannot
help but want to love you
as I once did before
Yet upon waking I regret
the day I willingly let you
sink psychic tendrils deep within
slowly eating with their barbed teeth
Even now freed from your clutches
I can still feel the sensation
of your leech-like nightmare caress
leaving my heart weak and weary
As I buried your corpse
I must entomb your hungry soul
To Cherish and to Hold
I treasure our nights together
roaming through these empty hallways
your pithy kisses gently tread
like faint footfalls from seraphim
each swift embrace purloins my breath
a parasitic act for sure
one that I gladly tolerate
as a nostalgic remembrance
I’ll collect the courage
to follow you someday
in your spectral half-life
but for now I’m content
with kisses from the past
swirling round like whispers
Not even in death do us part
My dear and sweet lover.
Kindred Spirit
I hear your heart when you’re hiding
back deep in the linen closet
The violent toxic noise downstairs
burns like a red-hot iron rod
directly through your fragile soul
You whimper, yet you do not cry
refusing that grotesque pleasure
a simple defiant gesture
If I still had a heart
beating in time with yours
I would hug you dearly
your head against my breast
My ethereal touch
calm whispers in your hair
For I too lived with a monster
until arsenic’s relief
About the Author
TS S. Fulk, a neurodiverse English teacher and textbook author, lives with his neurodiverse family in Sweden. After getting a B.A. in Music and M.A.T. Secondary Education: English from Kent State University and an M.A. in English literature from the University of Toronto, he taught English in Prague, CZ before settling down in Sweden. Besides teaching and writing, TS S. Fulk is an active musician playing bass trombone, the Appalachian mountain dulcimer and the Swedish bumblebee dulcimer (hummel). His poetry has been (or will be) published by numerous presses including The Light Ekphrastic, The Button Eye Review, The Fairy Tale Magazine, Journ-E, The Red Ogre Review, Perennial Press, Lovecraftiana and Wingless Dreamer.
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