24 August 2009 | Vol. 9, No. 2
Shelter #2: Frame
What surrounds us
the birds have not taken their place
words.
It's warm in the frame, under the lamps.
No one speaks because
keeping warm.
To speak takes it out of the body.
You can come to the defense
of the pushed-onto-the-tracks
without speaking.
This is not the shelter
where you keep all your things
set against the elements
What became of the place
where you live.
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About the author:
Carolyn Guinzio is the author of Quarry (Fall 2008, Free Verse Editions, Parlor Press), and West Pullman (Bordighera, 2005), winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Cannibal, Colorado Review, New American Writing, Typo, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Bard College and lives in Fayetteville, AR.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Carolyn Guinzio at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 9, No. 2, where "Shelter #2: Frame" ran on August 24, 2009. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
