HAUNTED

Old family photos

Haunted

Her hands, small

as a child’s (one digit

oddly curved), wrinkled,

veined, freckled with age,

extend at the end

of sleeves (mine)

Her face -- forehead furrowed,

lips pursed, intelligent eyes --

(collaboration of love, pain, pride,

impatience, humor, fear, mistrust

frustration) superimpose

over mien (mine);

She’s hiding in my mirror,

biding in blood and bits, in skin

and bone, heart, throat, gut,

grey matter; residing in nearly

everything that matters

in me