Sheepish bloat of a furniture store at night, items
faintly illumined through
the glass displaying the square footage it takes
to suggest arrangements<\/p>\n\n\n\n
we can make in our pleasantly enclosed lives.
Starfish of ceiling fans, thrones
of headboards, wooden dining tables holding forth
for flocks of prim parsons chairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And this vehicle a vestibule for the body,
a house for aching
bones, a chamber for whatever nimble soul
may be a part of the deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an airy, ancient apartment in Boston
I\u2019ve lain with a girl I knew
I wouldn\u2019t stay with, have seen how much
that silence can say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The room was lovely, too. Plush king bed, gray
linen comforter, a surplus
of natural light, sensual postmodern canvases,
a sculpture of a tree in the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am still wandering streetlight-stained highways
while a furnished home beckons,
am still exhuming and examining the past,
listless, listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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