Rosemary reads a passage from a novel
describing the sloth, an animal
that sleeps mostly, is slow to move,
reminding her of me.
                                       After dinner
we walk past an apartment
labelled 'minimalistic elegance'
                                        unattractive
as the description of a potential residence
though ok if applied to
a book of poems . . . my poems.
                                               I mean
does it mean 'a minimum of elegance' (cut corners)
or an elegance of minimal nature (like the Japanese)?

I hang by my toes upside down in the trees.

Copyright © Laurie Duggan, 2003.