Wednesday, May 20, 2020

A Person


1.
He paints all sorts. Familiar scenes,
but there’s always something missing:
a tree with trunk and crown, no middle,
house with windows, blank space no door.

2.
He lives rough;
his back the wall of his bedroom.
He listens to a radio, low static-filled sounds
that dribble from his privacy into the street.

3.
I’m looking at the doorway;
the paintwork is scorched.
It’s been like that for a while now;
he, himself, is missing.

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