Thursday, April 28, 2022

Bar Codes

 (revised)


Draperies: and some  folds

bunch together. A tired merchant

tugs them across a whole

window  to hide from retail.


On that day rain came straight

down then wind drove it

into mountains like harp-string

nails. We grew desperate for sun.


Was the wall in that baked town

painted white at first, with black

stripes added later? Or black

first, white lines later?


From my roasting room across

the street, I watched black-and-

white TV. It was a documentary

on geometric zebras. 

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