A contemporary poem about a lamp refuses the corner, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The lamp keeps sliding away from the corner. No matter where I place it, its light finds the middle of the room. I call this inconvenient. The darkness calls it honest. By midnight, even the furniture has gathered where something can be seen.
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A nature & reflection poem about frame, letter, looking, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
A nature & reflection poem about field, light, boundary, where attention changes the scale of the ordinary.
The field is not withholding an answer; it simply has a life that does not require the speaker's interpretation.
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