[places]
this room
this cozy domestic room
modeled on the victorian
modeled on the english
with its comfort and its ornament
its signs and sighs of lives &
loves in other lands
the green and yellow paintings
the landscapes the portraits
the blue and white china
the red country toile
bone and silver and ivory
under glass with tattered books
books open on their bellies
backs broken and worn in
worn out
the garden with its curves
with its rocky beds
sleeping now waiting
for winter with its cold wind
this room its french loveseat
its fringed cushions its cats
its lap dogs the round fish bowl
awaiting a new fish a black
goldfish perhaps a moore
appropriately victorian
appropriately modest &
flamboyant at once this room
with its bentwood boxes
memorabilia of another
people the people smothered
slowly murdered by blankets
and all this domesticity this
room with its old woman
its modern conveniences
its four white walls
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