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Adam Clay

A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World

  • Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    What’s more important than all of this,
    what’s always been more important

    than any of this, is the question

    of how to set work aside for another day —
    for instance,
  • Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    When you find your voice.
    When you light a cigarette
    for the dead smoker on the other end. Wind.

    When you reinvent grammar,

    and that new grammar hems you in.
  • Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    When the television blares and you don’t hear it.
    When a hay bale rings on the nightstand
    and you answer it.

    (If it rings, answer it.)
  • Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    When. When you think of the dark.
    When you think what you think you are. When it engulfs you.
  • Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    and the grass in your hair from yesterday:
    still there.
  • Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    want to watch you laughing down from the pier.
  • Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    A smashed caterpillar somehow on a windshield.

    Somehow, otherhow.

    I am always wishing you were here.
  • Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    A blur of a triptych
    I saw years ago.
  • Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    Where a vine is only a vine,
    where two sparrows flying fast
    around the house, not expecting
    to find me standing here,
    are just what they appear to be:
    two sparrows lost for half
    a second in my shadow.
  • Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    But there was nothing holy about the intangible.
    There was only the last horse.
    After it was gone, the imprint on the bricks
    remained. Then the memory of the horse.
    Then rain for a thousand years.
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