everyone is here, in every room

Here's the poetry book that I purchased, at the very impressive "Leakey's Book Shop", a couple of days ago ...

... it's a 2014, limited edition, which is also signed by the author - and this is the volume's title-poem, which I really rather like:


Through a Glass, Lately

Sometimes, returning late,
you cut through
a familiar street

to find yourself
at the lighted windows
of the house of your life.

Shadows, magnified,
cross behind closed curtains;
flicker and murmur ---

everyone is here,
in every room.
Your key is long gone,

but look, the nameplate
and the intermittent bell
still announce you:

a curtain shifts
as a backlit, searching face
peers out into your darkness

---

Chris Waters

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