A contemporary poem about the room won’t sit still, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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Every chair faces a different accusation. The sofa has turned its back on the door. A cabinet hums behind its locked mouth. I move one lamp and the shadows rearrange. This is what the house calls order: objects rehearsing their escape without taking a single step.
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Impossible objects become almost domestic, turning strangeness into a place the speaker can inhabit.
Attention creates an opening but cannot determine what lies beyond it.
A contemporary poem about table with a temper, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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