the fact that forms a shadow

12” x 18”
inkjet print on watercolor paper
2006

“Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of the home…” “In its countless alveoli space contains compressed time.”
GASTON BACHELARD

linoleum counters, shelves lined with a wallpapered past

an instant and gone, indefinitely, permanent

she drinks from a soap tinted glass
with golden asterisks, she thinks
an odd thing to uncover

an absence sitting in a corner, at the top of the stairs, the fact that forms a shadow.
Monday, two days before, every hour until
blue plates hang from the wall

she thinks of the inconsistency of the utilities
breathing between the rafters

the return to the tangential
in the next room

immensity between
the last letter of the last word and the final punctuation