Ghostology
The whistler's inhale, the white space between is and not or after a question, a pause. Nothing isn't song: a leaf hatching from its green shell, frost whorling across a windshield, an open door opening
Credit
From Love, An Index by Rebecca Lindenberg. Copyright © 2012 by Rebecca Lindenberg. Reprinted with permission of McSweeney’s. All rights reserved.
Author
Rebecca Lindenberg
Rebecca Lindenberg is the author of Our Splendid Failure to Do the Impossible (BOA Editions, 2024), among other titles.
The recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship, a National Endowment for the Arts literature grant, and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, she is an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, where she is also poetry editor of The Cincinnati Review.
Date Published
01/01/2012