A contemporary poem about the chair that remembers, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The chair keeps the shape of every leaving. A shoulder in the back, a knee in the cane, the brief collapse of someone receiving bad news. I sit carefully, offering it no new burden. Still, the wood leans towards me. It knows the body is not furniture until the room decides to forget it.
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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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