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Our featured poet this week is Somerville’s Ed Meek. Ed is a poet and fiction writer. His latest short story collection is titled Luck.
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Ed Meek
Ghosts
If there is an Oversoul
as the transcendentalists thought
ghosts inhabit it…
Maybe Undersoul
is more accurate.
Underneath the earth,
deep underground
a railroad: cars filled
with the dead children
of Sandy Hook, Columbine, Virginia Tech,
on their way to Paradise…
I like to think I hear the train whistle
in the distance as I walk to work,
and as I lie dreaming at night in bed,
anxiously drifting in and out of sleep.
— Ed Meek
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