PROPER SEMANTICS
what was meant
by the word love
at this table
(see also:
the tipped glass,
the fork set down mid-sentence,
the dog
who heard everything
and said nothing,
the candle that outlasted
the argument,
the washing machine
simply
there)
what was meant
is underlined
twice
memory rotunda — a circular domestic room whose walls are one continuous embroidered tableau, the dinner table wrapping the full 360° horizon while the overcast Wellington night presses at high windows above