Sleeping with Architecture

Kim Roberts

    The Empire State Building flops onto my bed.
    Not all of him of course,
    he’s too big for that, just the top
    sixty stories and the winged spire,

    a silver blade lain out across
    my white sheets.  The Empire State Building
    prefers to sleep on his left side.
    And though he’s a large building--

    all that Indiana limestone and aluminum--
    he leaves plenty of room for me on the right.
    He doesn’t steal the covers like a husband
    or talk in his sleep or drool on the pillow.

    He’s almost a quarter of a mile high,
    with his recessed sides, his H-shaped floor plan,
    but turned on his left, resting his steel frame,
    he’s more intimate: one long confessional I.

    

Kim Roberts - Kim Roberts is the editor of the on-line journal Beltway Poetry Quarterly ,the author of three books of poems, most recently Animal Magnetism, winner of the Pearl Poetry Prize (Pearl Editions, January 2011), as well as a nonfiction chapbook, Lip Smack: A History of Spoken Word Poetry in DC (Beltway Books, 2010), and editor of the anthology Full Moon on K Street: Poems About Washington, DC (Plan B Press, 2010). Her poems have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Mandarin. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the DC Commission on the Arts, the Humanities Council of Washington, DC, and has been a writer-in-residence at twelve artist colonies. Kim Roberts  in this issue... Tags: Thanal Online, web magazine dedicated for poetry and literature Kim Roberts, Sleeping with Architecture
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