Poem: Shadowy Room

Originally published in Chicago Literati. To view it in situ, with two other poems, go here:

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Best to all and to all a good read.


Owl
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Shadowy Room

dark that pretends to be chairs,
and a father and mother
no longer dead,

and a sister much younger
though not anorexic,
and a brother
without his suicide.

faux hopes
that lack backbone,
aping memories:

imitations from the cerebellum’s
dime store.

they kiss odd stairs,
embrace splintery steps,
seek a corner in an attic
without height.

when the lamp clicks,
worry bounces off an inner white desert,
all shadows erased--

too fast to follow back to fake people,
or a home.



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