Unlocked Doors
for Sonia Lunn

i.
you’re not an outsider
if you can open a book

you’re not excluded if you can read it

what if you can’t enter Lyford Cay
if you can open a book
and breathe fresh air

ii.
opening books without end, like thighs,
to have intercourse
with their authors


Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
3:37 a.m. 04.12.08