Ghost Tablet

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©Vincent Hostak/November 2023

in the Japanese language
the people say:
ありがとう。
the people say:
arigato
the people say:
thank you and
you are rare 
you are valuable.
these spoken words soar
like birds 
casting catanaries
which hold us safely
in the sky.
This sky
accepts their expression
presenting only 
a ghost tablet
for spirit words-
eidola
both phantom and ideal

Published by Vincent Hostak

I am a father, writer, and podcaster living along the Front Range, Colorado. My poetry has appeared in Sonder Midwest, Tejascovido, Langdon Review of the Arts in Texas, Texas Poetry Assignment and the 2022-23 print anthology, Lone Star Poetry: Championing Texas Verse, Community, and Hunger Relief. I produce The Phantom Script (a poetry podcast) and Crossings-the Refugee Experience in America Podcast. https://www.kallistogaiapress.org/product/lone-star-poetry-championing-verse-community-and-hunger-relief/

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