Response Poem 1: Jasmine

(Response to: "The Previous Occupant")

Home

The closer I get
to home
the lighter my body feels

The air in this home
 is heavy

The tension built in rooms
has seeped into the walls

That's why
home suffocates
me sometimes

home is holding together
so much history

Despite all that has happened here
the effects are minimal

But I notice them.

The family portrait
tilts,
no matter how many times I straighten it
it tilts

when I am not looking.

The air in this house is heavy
but here is where
I can collapse and fly
I know this air will hold me.

the rotating fan makes strange sounds now
is it pain, I wonder?
no one calls the repair-man
"Just let her rest a while."
we say.

Slipping behind the curtain
I watch things only home is allowed to witness

I have imagined angels on this ceiling
- and lovers on these windows.

Within the walls of home
is limitless space

Dear home,
you are proof
of my existence. 

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