1.
the child knows
that ghosts
are bulletproof, she shuts
the panes and does not sleep.


2.
"I am the rosy peach of winter-time,
to carry sweetness is my crime"
the father recited
this rhyme
uninvited

3.
taken by the hand
by her grand frère
child, kiss my lips
and say your prayer

4.
child rests in silky beams
of autumn that has come in dreams
the ghost still waiting by the wall
on his book of nightmares he does scrawl