Door
What would you conceal?
Or open to. Could you unfurl
your fist to daylight
and shudder loss away — one key,
one digit, one death — presuming the universe
and all its hinges available for inspection
behind yet another unlatched presence.
And this spinning disk,
how shall we step off? Every moon
sheds its coat. Listening, I turn the knob.
“Door” first appeared on the blog in September 2016.
O at the Edges 
great!
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Thank you!
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It seems that, with each poem you read, I process in slightly different ways, appreciating the nuances even more.
The thought of the fist unfurling, having turned the knob, palm up and fingers opening to release possibilities, just as the the open door would.
Or, the the knob as the fist, opening to those possibilities. Or, the knob as the moon, one step to greater things.
And the spinning disk… the plane of the knob… the plane of our existence, once again, open to possibilities.
Then again, conversations with you have led me to analyze/understand your subtleties.
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Thanks, Ken. All those little resonances add up, even the unintended ones, which are often among the strongest. 😀
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Way cool. You have The Voice.
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Ha! Thanks, Jeff. Hmm. Sounds like tv show…
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‘Could you unfurl
your fist to daylight
and shudder loss away’ – great images
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Thank you, Derrick.
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Your reading voice is superb Robert, and i was quietly enjoying your recital, then whacko the door noises startled me !! I suppose to make sure we were awake and listening…..
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Ha! Then it worked!
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Wonderful! Especially the end with the squeaky door, made me want to listen to it again!
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I am enjoying playing around with these recordings”
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It just gets better and better, Bob!
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I’ll keep playing!
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Beautiful, thoughtful poem. I really like this.
The squeaky door startled my cat! 🙂
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Thanks, Merril. Sorry about the cat. 😬
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It’s OK. One cat is very sensitive to sounds. He always stops and looks up when there’s music or strange sounds on the radio or TV. The other one ignores them. 😉
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One of our dogs is sensitive to sounds and weather changes. We can sometimes tell that we’re about to get rain, just from her behavior.
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That’s cool.
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It’s weird and interesting. She’ll get frantic, and we’ll check the weather radar and see that a storm is approaching. Poor pup.
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