2 September 2002 | Vol. 2, No. 3
Moving
It's the last box, the last chair,
the last look at the place—
the history shared with four walls,
a roof, a floor.
There's not much left except the mice,
uncaught, pawing behind plaster.
About the author:
Matthew W. Schmeer holds an MFA from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and edits Poetry Midwest. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Segue, the River Oak Review, Cairn, the Rio Grande Review, the Connecticut River Review, the California Quarterly, the Curbside Review, mélange, the Hawai'i Review, Crab Creek Review, the Potomac Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook Twenty-One Cents is forthcoming from Pudding House Publications. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. He can be reached at mschmeer@fmarion.edu.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Matthew W. Schmeer at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 2, No. 3, where "Moving" ran on September 2, 2002. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
