Poems – The Brooklyn Rail

So this is reality too, come in / and now you’re here, all swept / up for you the floor shiny / and our wonderful pal, the / antelope clatters its little hooves / on the floor to eat from your / hand, all the pictures / you love on the walls and / your favorite books read

Loading... Loading... Word count: 2363 Paragraphs: 210 All Day So this is reality too, come in and now you’re here, all swept up for you the floor shiny and our wonderful pal, the antelope clatters its little hooves on the floor to eat from your hand, all the pictures you love on the walls and your favorite books read themselves aloud, and you can leave if you want to, just turn the page or have the kids come over for cake, little Louie from downstairs, he likes you so much he brings his friends too, the twelve year old girl, She loves it here we give her shiny hair and crackling petticoats. I

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