Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Palinode 13

Last night our walls walked away from us.
Believe it, it’s not
an academic thing it—
it just happened
I de-
signed it—
I think
I was
screaming
about the children—how many we have,
how they are problems.

1 comment:

Goofball said...

Hailey,
I see a great abstraction away from the present situation to the basic condition of life in the first line--albeit one presented in a concrete, poetic manner. "I de-
signed it-": does this mean that the world of language evaporates? I like your fictional children, they are good projections of self, and problems as our projections can become.