My Western Wall
My walls are a lattice of impressions,
an un-narratible story,
from the copied small portrait
of children born of a far away daughter,
half-erased with white crayon
to the rushed glimpse of a poorly maintained stopsign
and the dream of a bullfight.
Alex, in her white dress
is glaring into a display screen
in the booth for having your say,
the image poorly rendered,
scribbled and pressed to the bare wall with tape.
A vision of a spider's orb made into a torch
by the sun amid the green and black
of Long Island's trees,
an over-processed photograph rendered in pastel.
The stark prairie earth abstracted
under the fluid sky.
I have lived amid many walls
which are quickly covered with the inside of my eyes.
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