Abigail Selby

Finifugal

Writing is to live

with ghosts.

Ghosts of yourself, people you’ve been, or will become; those you never know

beyond intimately and insufferably existing between each breath of your lungs. 

Ghosts you long for, despair against, thrash under mossy plains to forget;

Or sit alongside tombstones with bated breath.

Ghosts are constantly parading around me: Both feral,

and condemning me to passion.  For the sake of nothing but their sinew

Which I breathe in, and asphyxiate.

I feel an innate disposition with myself;

that I may only write according to my own

Undoing and Eradication. 

Writing your death as it happens: how silly a motion.

About Abigail

Abigail Selby is a student studying Creative Writing at Sonoma State University while constantly evolving her craft. With a background studying veterinary medicine, English, and humanities, she persists in her love for education and learning. Outside of her writing and studies, she enjoys all areas of art, spending her time in her home of Northern California where she finds inspiration.