A Ghost Inside
︎︎︎ Arcadia Molinas
︎ Dec 2, 2024
I’ve found the weight my dad has lost,
stuffed in cupboards, inside mattresses,
drifting with dust bunnies.
Something
is worming through my dad
and hollowing him out.
I can’t tell you how I know
other than
I know.
He is floating towards me,
I hear the rustle
of his threadbare pajamas.
Dad, please–it’s me,
Dad, I love you–
Dad?
stuffed in cupboards, inside mattresses,
drifting with dust bunnies.
Something
is worming through my dad
and hollowing him out.
I can’t tell you how I know
other than
I know.
He is floating towards me,
I hear the rustle
of his threadbare pajamas.
Dad, please–it’s me,
Dad, I love you–
Dad?
Arcadia Molinas is a Spanish writer and bartender based in London. She is an editor at Worms and her writing has appeared on Write or Die, Tetragrammaton, Cringe, minor lit[s], Worms, and elsewhere.