VISIT
Elevators
rise like bubbles in a wine glass
and the blue-grey linoleum floors
shine like water.
and the blue-grey linoleum floors
shine like water.
He’s attached to a drip
that bubbles with dull music;
I kiss his shaking hand and his smile
that bubbles with dull music;
I kiss his shaking hand and his smile
appears
and flees like a mirror-light.
- Claire Roberts 2012
AFTERWARD
The
fluorescent lights turn on
and blink like someone waking
I take my backpack and pass
through the automatic doors
into the shivering night
and intersecting stairs
that descend to the lawns
where I see raindrops
and blink like someone waking
I take my backpack and pass
through the automatic doors
into the shivering night
and intersecting stairs
that descend to the lawns
where I see raindrops
cling
to shrubs and glitter
like ornaments on a chandelier.
like ornaments on a chandelier.
- Claire Roberts 2012
1 comment:
love these, claire, especially 'afterward'
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