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Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room by Victoria Chang | Poetry Magazine

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While the man is away

Share While the man is away telling his wife about the red-corseted woman, the woman waits on the queen-sized bed. You'd expect her quiet in the fist of a copper statue. Half her face, a shade of golden meringue, the other half, the dark of cattails. Her mouth even— too straight, as if she doubted her made decision, the way women do. In her hands, a yellow letter creased, like her hunched back. Her dress limp on a green chair. In front, a man's satchel and briefcase. On a dresser, a hat with a ceylon feather. That is all the artist left us with, knowing we would turn the woman's stone into our

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