< a window on whose other side is everything >

[rayheinrich]

               



                    < a window on whose other side is everything >
                          ( a chant to be read aloud or while moving your lips )
                               
                                and in your journal
                                as i look inside your journal
                                in your journal
                                where you say:
                               
                                "a week from yesterday today
                                two days until tomorrow
                                monday
                                monday's when it happened
                                it will happen
                                happened on a monday
                                monday
                                that is now this monday
                                on this monday
                                down this hall
                                this hall so deep within our house
                                (or what we call a house)
                                this hall which started dark
                                and faded into light
                                a window there
                                unseen by me
                                a window in a room  
                                a window on whose other side is everything"
                                you said:
                                "another trick"
                                you said:
                                "another trick"
                               
                                i didn't know
                                the window wasn't there
                                the window wasn't there as yet
                                not really there
                                not down the hall
                                and all i heard was you
                                that light
                                that light was all i saw
                               
                                "i see this light that comes from down the hall" i'd say
                               
                                and then you'd say
                                and then you said:
                               
                                "a trick, a little trick they play, i know their tricks,
                                this light
                                it comes from down the hall
                                there is a room
                                a window there
                                a light
                                there is a window there
                                a window on whose other side is everything
                                except this hall
                                except this room you've never seen
                                except for you
                                except for me"
                               
                                and there you stopped
                                you stopped
                                you never said again
                                again
                                again that monday
                                monday
                                that is now this monday
                                on this monday
                                monday
                                when it happened
                                monday
                                this is now that monday was
                                and is
                                a trick you told me of
                                and then you said:
                               
                                "that day, this day, a house, a hall, a light, a room,
                                a window on whose other side
                                a window on whose other side is everything
                                is everything
                                a window on whose other side another world exists
                                a week from yesterday today
                                two days until tomorrow"
                               
                                                - - -
                               
               


Image: "Staring Sister" - a photograph by me of my younger sister - its profound artsy-fartsyness was
obtained by separating the flesh-tones into groups and then averaging each group to a single color.

You're from deep mania aren't you! Eternal blessings to y'all for wackwebing my poems.