Some of my favorite poems to read are reversals or examinations of common thought, poems that ask what if where it isn't often asked. I wrote "All Souls" after wondering whether the dead call to us as we call to them each year, and if they do, I wondered what that practice might feel like on the other side of living.

Abby E. Murray is the editor of Collateral. She teaches rhetoric in military strategy for Army War College students at the University of Washington and currently lives near Washington DC.