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.
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