Phantom Limb It still twinges on cold nights, and itches from imagined insect bites.   Sometimes, I expect to look and see it still attached to me.   I still pull blankets over it at night, and see its outline beneath the cotton sheets.   I still feel the blood coursing through non- existent capillaries….

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