Four rooms, one corridor.
In the first room, everyone is talking at once
and somehow this is the kindest thing.
In the second room, people sit equidistant
from a point no one names.
The point holds.
In the third room, a sound
that is not yet a voice
announces itself
the way weather does—
you feel it in the architecture
before you hear it in the air.
In the fourth room, paper.
The way paper can mean
the rest of your life
if you hold it at the right angle
to the light.
Between the rooms: walking.
Nine thousand twelve attempts
to stay inside a body
that keeps wanting
to become several bodies at once—
the one who works,
the one who hopes,
the one who signs,
the one who heard that sound
and has not yet
returned from it.