your ghost is in my bones
my mother named you Sara
she made and named a baby:
two sons conceived, then you
and then simply
not you
my mother's only daughter
could never really happen
this body, the last to be born
in a family of three sons, my body
it's our body
just as it was your place I took
the two of us, closer than connected
more than brother and sister
watch me sleep:
it's Sara wide awake
the girl who never learned English
instead speaks in gurgles and snores
watch me bring men home:
to meet the parents
these are not my men
because my heart is half yours:
between every thump
is another thump, a silent one
yours
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