There Are So Many Rooms in this House

In a dream I heard him say "egrets"

but as a verb, as in "sound egrets through space"

a mild soaring

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In another dream, he corrects himself: what I mean to say

is egress,

pretty abandon

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Some nights we recognize the latch in our hands

as something simple, like a daisy

other nights it is the reason we fail to love

or organize sound into the meat of our failure.

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To hear yourself dreaming in someone else's

mouth--that is, a mind (your own, others) brought

to bear in blind, quiet garden. Lay here. Listen.

The throat of your voice on wings.

--Christina Mengert