The silence is deafening. You are just getting settled In your new ghostly home. But it is the first day of winter and I cannot remember a winter without you. So I talk to your empty chair. Your book and glasses on the table. Even the pipe you loved and I hated is not removed. I breathe its aromatic perfumed tobacco like I did before. You never told me how sick you were But I knew…I knew. Now wearing your old sweater I call our number again and again The machine resurrects your voice. I savor every nuance and inflexion the soft gentle timbre I loved. For a brief moment you are back here with me once more. You ask me to leave a message. It beeps. I whisper I miss you honey