Dorsía Smith Silva
Union Station
Have you seen the ghosts?
Their faces are ceramic jars
with holes and blank pages—
erased, peeled, then dropped.
Their bodies poised in a galloping life
sprouting like cracked crystal by default.
Said the tourists:
They are ruining the benches.
Can't someone do something?
They pull the exposed blankets,
bury themselves in forced folds of fear;
And then the morning comes,
desperate,
for a witness
of what is not abandoned.
Bio
Dorsía Smith Silva is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Her poems have most recently appeared in POUI, Mothers and Daughters, and Rigorous. She is currently editing two books and looking for different muses on her travels.