{marginalia} what good objects do
a curiosity, as killing / echoes driven down
the sound of droplets a kind of torture dispensing
choices hold voices, move liquid around
to bring about a particular outcome, something
to pass over, like a bridge / stones thrown
and feet to run back home / a place to sleep
at the end of the day / a thing laid
out for you proving it's beautiful to lie / let's
close up the spaces to find what we've wanted
between words subtext / or a neck adorned
a finger circled to take the paint walls, corridors
could clean up well / to stand in for abstractions
such as happiness or a heart to eat away at, written
out of a landscape for distortion deadened / to let
out water, a small window / opened
Valerie Witte