question
discouragement
quite
open
more
--
when I look at you, I think things that are
quite open; the way oranges roll along the countertop,
the way stories I half-told roll
across my tongue--
things required and under
the glass-topped table two people
hide in awkward wedges. if you
need a little more discouragement, I can provide that
for you, or if you would prefer to be quite ignored, I can
give you that.
if you were quite alone in an open space like
a white field or an airstrip, and if I
suddenly appeared quite close to you, my breath
trickling over the warmer places of the air like
fog down stairs; if the real reason for sewing shut
the doors of the phantom fronthall had to do with
your answer to that-- then do you suppose
we could more or less settle on the correct proportion
of discouragement and blank eyes?
..
..
open question.
--
are you a poet? ask me about 5word carry-ons.
(lascivious/rearguard/until/tote/green)
5word carryon: phantom fronthall
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Wow, I am very impressed. I am a huge huge huge William Carlos Williams fan, and this strikes me as very delicately devious, mischievously malicious, but perhaps a bit
ReplyDeletecruel?
Who was this guy anyways?
if you mean who was the subject of the poem.. it's not really important. he doesn't live up to anything i've ever written about him, anyways. but that is, perhaps, a bit cruel of me.
ReplyDeletewhy Soren Stevens?
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ReplyDeletei was just asking in order to offer my condolences if your heart was in danger of being broken.
but now it seems plain to me that the situation is nowhere remotely near being that serious, so i will politely accept this bit of cruelty on it's face value.