by Robyn Joy

I Saw a Ghost

I saw a ghost 

and it was me 

twenty years ago 

a parade of psychiatrists  

who didn’t see her 

smothered her in pills 

until her brain became 

encased in amber 

in my top ten fears 

is becoming her again 

proper diagnosis and treatment 

depends on my self-reporting 

and I want to know 

how am I supposed to get that right 

how do I get them to see me 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robyn Joy has been published in two Writers for Recovery anthologies, The Hippocrates Initiative’s 2020 anthology, Sixfold.org’s Winter 2020 issue, and as a West Trade Review Online Exclusive. She lives in central Vermont with her husband and precocious cat, where she can be found making visual art, experimenting in the kitchen, dissecting her dreams and thoughts, communing with animals, and practicing yin yoga.