i used the stairs to get here
(three poems)

by jillian clark

like & as

tonight i decided
the rotation of the earth has caused these things:

when you are in a room alone and it is suddenly dark: when
at night your car puts its shadow on a fence: when your
apartment feels sad on the inside
and it looks like it has a human face
as houses often do

tonight i am writing poems
and thinking that you might do the same

or you are watching sports
which could be romantic to me

as long as you are thinking of a poem
and that poem is thinking of someone else

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all words copyright jillian clark, 2009