You in the living room
You on a Tuesday afternoon
A breeze seen when the curtains move


You by the window with both feet up on the couch
Where you sit and you read and I watch you


From the office the sunlight frames your silhouette
I think of lighting fireworks, I think of pirouettes

I idly write down observations on the scene
Like do the blueprints name the rooms alone?
Do we name them on our own?

We hardly live in there

You with a book propped on your knees

A breeze seen in your coffee steam

Iâ??m in the office thinking back to rules of poetry

Itâ??s fourteen lines, the last two rhyme, what does pentameter mean?

You in the living room

Legs bent at forty-five degrees

I write AB AB, try to find your rhyme scheme

I look for objects on the desk with which to sculpt your image best
What would I name this could I paint it â??Woman (reading)?â? â??Girl (at rest)?â?


I remember it so well watching you shifting your weight, turning the page, I can see it all there
Inside a living room where only I live and never go in
A role in name alone


And I pause where I am for a second when I hear your name
Sometimes I think I see your face in improbable places

Do those moments replay for you?
When Iâ??m suddenly there and then wonâ??t go away
When youâ??re sitting in the living room reading for the afternoon

Do you put your book down look and try to find me there?

Sometimes I think of all the people who lived here before us

How the spaces in the memories you make change the room from just blueprints
To the place where you live


When you leave here
When you go from a home
You take all that you own but the memories echo


On hardwood floor in the living room
Tore the carpet the scratches below that we found

And the wine stain on the couch
We got drunk and decided weâ??d still try to move it around
And I canâ??t tell what the difference is between the ones that we made and the ones that we didnâ??t make

They all conjure images still
Where you sit and you read in the sunlight aware that I watch


And I live alone now
Save for the echoes


I live alone now
Save for the echoes