is the author of Ruthless. His poems appear in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, New England Review, The North American Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He directs the MFA program at Southern Connecticut State University and lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife, Margot Schilpp, and their daughters, Paula and Leah.
Sometimes What Doesn’t Exist Is Larger Than You Can Believe
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Some rooms are smaller than they are.
Some rooms are larger. And some rooms
Don’t exist, no matter how much
We want them to. What does exist
—A cup and spoon, a dog, a wish—
Takes the place of what might exist.
Even the breath you exhale takes
The place of the room you’ve dreamed of,
And in that room is a wineglass
Full of something you desire more than wine.
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