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Closed Doors

It happened years ago, I left. After I walked just two or three steps, I heard the door anxiously being closed. I don’t know why but ever since that moment the sound that the door made echoes in my ears like the clatter of a handful of pebbles on a coffin. I started to hate the closure of doors. To me they sound like coffin lids.

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Countee Cullen

For a Magician

I whose magic could explore Ways others might not guess or see, Now am barred behind a door That has no “Open Sesame.”

Dave Bonta

Soulful

the mouths of poor people are a considerable instrument like absence or doors in a wall so high and melancholy they trouble the heart

Dave Bonta

Prison guard

hear him speak of release the prison guard an epicure of secrets an unsafe door a messenger from their last day in the world

Dave Bonta

Social medium

public as a door my private self because I would be anything I might do heaven be off let me fit myself

Dave Bonta

Fair ground

all summer is a fair the more I see the more I rove lane by lane a dance of loose doors thoughts but no fur found in burrows

Dave Bonta

Widower’s song

she left behind her road and her doors her never sit down her nothing her no body the discipline of her religion sober and drunk her living hand melancholy as a careless gun her fear her truth her contract with me to make whole

Dave Bonta

Social kissing

this token kiss is not an open door a hope preserve or sin to us it is fleet home and then off

Dave Bonta

Global positioning

cold full of doors not so much a church as a paper chamber I place myself in the world among books and spoons a box leased for my office sin and prayers

Dave Bonta