Empty

 (1)

Chairs

Cups

Tea

Gone

Once

Voices

Paused

Quiet 

Glance 

Eyes

Held

Abyss

Loss

Too sad to cry

Beyond words

Space

 

(2)

Woods (chopped down)

Exotic (slave labor in a rain forest)

Local (clearcut off stolen land)

Metal (extracted from strip mines)

Space (held at great expense)

Polished (by workers, unacknowledged)

Street (cleared of all drifters)

Shadows (not enough to hide in)

Hazy (lost in memory)

Alone (with my lover)

Travelers (from afar)

Evidence (just this)

 

-- Larry Wolf, 28 July 2025

[Index of Poems]

Larry Wolf, Two Chairs (2025)