Kailey Ahearn

“Sanitized, cleaned, my house was a mausoleum and the ghost it housed was me.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Ellipsis

“i know you are just now learning
to let yourself be tired
so do not fear the cricks
and cracks of you
that is the sound
of a house well-loved
well-learned
well-lived

finally asking its ghosts
to come out (of hiding) for tea”
― Morgan Nikola-Wren, Magic with Skin On

“Alone in my room, I don’t feel alone. It’s as if I have two shadows instead of one, and this second shadow doesn’t conform to my movements. It follows me, it gives the impression it will never leave me, but it does what it wants. I worry that in time I will do what it wants.”
― Christopher Pike, The Shadow of Death

“and this ache
this trembling ache
haunts me endlessly
like you.”
― Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses