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Brittany Mishra: The Living

September 7, 2022 by PBQ Leave a Comment

A home is a home to stay at home.
Brick and mortar. Carpets,

wood, varnish, and vinyl.

We lounge on our floors,
cradle our heads in our hands, and look up

at the popcorn ceilings as if we are relaxing
in blue grass. We have time

to discover the images of our desires

in the cirrus, cumulus, and stratus
of our white painted stipple.

We walk upstairs and memorize
every creak and sigh of our steps.

From our bedroom windows,

we view the street below: Asphalt,
concrete, trimmed lawns, and a parallel

line of parked cars. Not a single
space open      all of us going nowhere

fast.

Filed Under: Issue 102, Poetry, Poetry 102 Tagged With: Brittany Mishra

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