Trifid Nebula
—Photo Courtesy of NASA, Hubble Telescope
THE OVERLAP OF WORLDS
—Russell Edson
The furniture is like models of animals. You can see the dining room table as a kind of bull standing with its cows, the chairs. Or the easy chair with its footstool, the cow with its
calf. . .
And they live a life, as if a spirit world and this were overlapped, oblivious to the other.
In moonlight these animals soften and resume their lives, browsing the rugs; as we, upstairs, asleep in our dreams, resume our lives; overlapping and oblivious to the other. . .
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—Russell Edson
The furniture is like models of animals. You can see the dining room table as a kind of bull standing with its cows, the chairs. Or the easy chair with its footstool, the cow with its
calf. . .
And they live a life, as if a spirit world and this were overlapped, oblivious to the other.
In moonlight these animals soften and resume their lives, browsing the rugs; as we, upstairs, asleep in our dreams, resume our lives; overlapping and oblivious to the other. . .
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—Medusa. For more about Prose Poet Russell Edson, who passed away this year, see www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/russell-edson