a lampstand
baskets of blue laundry.

Memories furnish the walls
papered
under gloss purple & moss-green

an ancient fish vendor
selling in the streets of Krakow
Lodz      hangs on the wall      for the Duration: the Radius of adoration
shrunk as a rose on a lamptassel, frozen like blood in the thumb.

The tiger leaves his skin behind:
a person her birthroom.
                A map of the streets of Bucharest
                to furnish my old mother’s brain
                as she reaches for the parchment lampshade curling, she would have it a
cigarette, ash and rose of the world, anything.