venetian blinds
storm
sun
storm
sun
storm
sun
what do you call
a screen that sections
the landscape into slatted
little portraits of the day's progress?
pushing his cart, the old
earthpicker stoops to examine
an artifact of no importance
i admit him in layers
of meaning onto my floor
unaware of my power to dis-
remember or of his
to claim everything
open, close
storm
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