For Simonette

Poem by Donna Faulkner

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On the benefits of ghosting

You    try to    summon me,
    Agent        provocateur.
Spritz my favourite    scent. 
Faux    pleasantries, 
a    bouquet 
    in the boneyard.
You’ve    become 
a    bloodhound 
        haunting 
all the places    that 
I    used    to go. 
Texts go
unanswered,    calls 
to voicemail.  
I’m not        there. 
I’m not        here. 
I’m not            anywhere

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Donna, based in Rangiora, New Zealand, has been published in *300 Days of Sun*, *Havik*, *Fieldstone Review*, *New Myths*, *Bacopa Literary Review*, and more. Her chapbook, *The Oracle of Birds: Short Stories for the Fireside*, was published by Written Tales, and her debut full poetry collection, *In Silver Majesty*, was released by erbacce press in 2024.