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.