Let’s Imagine Each Room Is an Entire World
(via rabbit-light:
This one, for example,
The anonymous drapes and spreads,
Dust-streaked windows
Overlooking the heating vents—
Each of us amazed
To find it holds the other;
Haven’t we slow-danced
To the big bands of the ’thirties
As the city sirens
Cried the blocks?
In childhood it was enough
To throw a blanket
Over the cardtable
And pull the flap
Slowly aside to enter
On hands and knees
Another kingdom,
While outside
The wind howled, rain beat,
Or the sun shone, pitiless
On the endless sand dunes—
And we alone, in those
Vast rooms, arranged
Our imaginary friends.
