Memory weighs more than bone by Charlotte Dawn | Wednesday Double Feature | One Poem Only

One Poem Only · Mar 4, 2026 · 1m

Wednesdays on One Poem Only are a double feature: one poem here on the podcast, and one more by the same poet shared on Instagram.

Memory weighs more than bone

Charlotte Dawn

You can’t see the ghosts

until you’re almost one—

until your breath learns how to hesitate,

until mirrors stop recognising you

without thinking.

They gather in the quiet margins:

hospital hallways at 3 a.m.,

old songs that bruise instead of heal,

names you don’t say aloud anymore.

The living pass straight through them,

laughing, late for something,

arms full of tomorrow.

They don’t feel the cold.

But you—

you slow down…