You Are A Jellyfish, Ghost
by Robert Krut

1. The bridge, like an unhinged elbow,
2. spreads across the river.

1. Each car flees the city, and the paint on homes
2. appears to attempt escape, as well,
3. instead looking like loose fingernails
4. held on by paper thin cuticle.

1. It is quaint to picture ghosts here,
2. shackled and robed, figures of a Delta Dickens,
3. or as some skeleton with threaded muscle
4. in a dusty suit singing standards in reverse.

1. But go out tonight—
2. the fog spreads the light farther,
3. but thinner, and you see it—
4. a jellyfish, bioluminescent,

1. floating at your eye line,
2. its bulb the size of a skull,
3. a human heart inside its cup,
4. a lock of hair trailing beneath.