A Memory of the Future by Elizabeth Spires

Author:Elizabeth Spires
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

A house unto itself that leans but does not fall.

Being but never doing (is being enough?),

storied and memoried (or has it forgotten everything?),

does it wonder why that florid, overdramatic sky

can never make up its mind what it wants to do?

Or what happens to those pink and purple clouds

when they drop over the razor-thin horizon?

Taking it all in, coming back to it day after day,

moving toward it and then moving away, walking

in cautious clockwise circles around it, then walking

widdershins, peering curiously into its endless gloom,

stepping over the doorframe into a perfectly empty room

(no, not empty, there’s a curling calendar from 1952),

do you think it has nothing to do with you? Do you?

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