Eric Ashford Poet Free verse

Younger Rooms

The house I wrote this poem in 
became an apartment for the ocean,
then a zoo for the innocently maladjusted,
then a garden for dreaming cats,
then floor-space - just floor space
to walk back and forth on.  

The room I find these words in,
these metaphors, these bewilderment’s
these vernal chimes of a younger blood,
flood me now, 
now in my narrow redoubt,
now in my condo-maze-ment,
my spindle-boned easement.

Once I was a simile, similar
to something else, a green fracture,
the unseasoned sap of an analogy,
now look at me.
I am upholstered, a place 
roomy enough for a younger poem,
for returning to younger words,
finding ghosts in the spaces between them,
breathing through vowels,
with their open lungs,
their brain dizzying songs.
Revisiting

underlining, unearthing 
blind roots, simple cyclic thoughts
as if they had just come to me,
and had not been arriving 
from freshly abandoned living-spaces
places excavated 
from under the forgotten foundations 
of elsewhere.

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