The Shining Room
To survive chaos she inscribes
chaos, looking through
space this
shining flycatcher, oat grass
a line through fabric
wayward
name, a wild steadying
drawn tightly across
what fills
To see
what won’t go away
she lists
every false claim
extending her body in space
transparency after transparency
—H.T. Harrison
____
from Practicing Amnesia (Singing Horse Press, 2000) by Heather Thomas