The prompt this week is Places.
this room
this cozy domestic room
modeled on the victorian
modeled on the englishwith its comfort and its ornament
its signs and sighs of lives &
loves in other lands
the green and yellow paintingsthe landscapes the portraits
the blue and white china
the red country toile
bone and silver and ivoryunder glass with tattered books
books open on their bellies
backs broken and worn in
worn outthe garden with its curves
with its rocky beds
sleeping now waiting
for winter with its cold windthis room its french loveseat
its fringed cushions its cats
its lap dogs the round fish bowl
awaiting a new fish a blackgoldfish perhaps a moore
appropriately victorian
appropriately modest &
flamboyant at once this roomwith its bentwood boxes
memorabilia of another
people the people smothered
slowly murdered by blanketsand all this domesticity this
room with its old woman
its modern conveniences
its four white walls
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