What Isn’t the Size of a Universe
I sit in a stone house
surrounding the earth
It is full of holes the light
comes through
There are days still
no body enters
into
They dawn without
being seen
They pass as in
a moment of discontainment
Above the doorway a lamp
from which the wax drips
form a field
a'sway with poppies
Padded Helmet
Yes that face full
of
no number
leaves a wanting
What's an eye
but one
appendage
What's a lip
but
the unlockable
gate
of an anger
I want my tears
to be
silver
spoons
in the poplars
william erickson is a poet from Vancouver, WA. His poems are in Sixth Finch, West Branch, Biscuit Hill, and elsewhere. He has two chapbooks, Monotonies of the Wildlife (FL 2022), and Nothing Lied Still on the Sea (forthcoming from Tilted House Press). william's debut collection arrives 2024 from April Gloaming.