I read a poem each morning in my inbox from SWWIM, and this morning, the poem is mine! Here is “The Ghosts of Missing Animals.”

The title comes from a sign near the old Point Loma Lighthouse at the Cabrillo National Monument. I’ve read that sign before, but it suddenly struck me in a new way when I was there with Sarah Ann Winn on her visit to San Diego, so she’s another unnamed ghost in this ghost-filled poem. <3 As with many poems over the last few years, this one is for my parents-in-law.