No Help for That | Jackie Clark

To Whom It May Concern:

The house was still again last night.
Today everyone is sleeping & having dreams about birds flying in pairs.
I am breaking deposits with an open glance, with fisted hands & chapped skin.

Absently yours,

Sensible Architect

Dear Sensible Architect,

That which is closed no longer gives but also doesn’t receive;
When you look away there is a pause in your absence.
Still fastidious, the sleeping night lures away benediction.

Forthright & Frank,

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