Interior, by Fractions

by Jared Green

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To see our bed from this angle,
divided by the door frame -

The cast-off clothing,
the unfinished novel, inverted -

The quivering wedge of light
from the descending day -

All this seems a sign,
proof that we have come this far -

Far enough to have
such sacramental things

as a bed, seen at an oblique angle
from the distance of another room.

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Jared Green is an author, literary critic, and professor of English literature at Stonehill College. His fiction, poetry, and critical writing have appeared (or are forthcoming) in numerous journals, including Colorado Review, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Chicago Review, Phoebe, Subnivean, The Missouri Review Aud-Cast, and Quiddity. His current project is a novel, This Is How We Walk on the Moon. 

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