The Couple in the Next Room
from Houseboat Days (1977)
She liked the blue drapes. They made a star At the angle. A boy in leather moved in. Later they found names from the turn of the century Coming home one evening. The whole of being Unknown absorbed into the stalk. A free Bride on the rails warning to notice other Hers and the great graves that outwore them Like faces on a building, the lightning rod Of a name calibrated all their musing differences. Another day. Deliberations are recessed In an iron-blue chamber of that afternoon On which we wore things and looked well at A slab of business rising behind the stars.