Comments on: Lakeside http://www.riehlife.com/2006/11/12/lakeside/ Creating connections through the arts and across cultures Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:30:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dave Barber http://www.riehlife.com/2006/11/12/lakeside/comment-page-1/#comment-3680 Dave Barber Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:12:11 +0000 http://www.riehlife.com/?p=1467#comment-3680 Imagine this room, stain on the dark wooden floor hole where the gas line ran where I sat up worried I’d killed everyone. A room wet with guilt a shrine to ignorance and naivety, a manger of pain. This room changed but remained the same. When I kept falling down it made the same crash. When I returned, it was for sewing- (Nothing else really) My feet creak the floor boards giving under the weight of years, or under my shadow- light shadow both mixed. No shadow of turning. Dave Barber 15 Nov 08 Imagine this room,
stain on the dark wooden floor
hole where the gas line ran
where I sat up worried
I’d killed everyone.
A room wet with guilt
a shrine to ignorance
and naivety,
a manger of pain.
This room changed
but remained the same.
When I kept falling down
it made the same crash.
When I returned,
it was for sewing-
(Nothing else really)

My feet creak the floor
boards giving under the weight
of years, or under my shadow-
light
shadow
both mixed.
No shadow of turning.

Dave Barber
15 Nov 08

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