“[let the patient describe a door]” by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth (poetry ’15)

An excerpt from “[let the patient describe a door]” by Jennifer Sperry Steinorth (poetry ’15), published in ANMLY.

[let the patient describe a door]

[ let the patient describe a door ]
in the dark I am not going to
I do not know if I am going to
I am certainly not going to lay
down I will have to pull back
the blanket I pulled back of
course I would not say yes of
course the blanket was tightly
pressed between the mattress &
the boxspring such is the weight
of a mattress a spring a spring

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