Light Slides a Window Slowly Shut
Eric Christiansen
you enter a room a window
a door you only see
where light isn’t the light
is peach you taste peach
you enter a room a window
razor-blades white lines
on black glass
two doors you
make a choice
you enter
a room a window
waits and cultivates oranges on
the wall the wall
becomes
a window a window
becomes
a door a door
a grove of orange trees
you make a choice
you
enter
a room a window
is a threshold a door
is a room
you can’t remember how
you enter you enter
a room a window
melts
back
into white sand a door
into a field of wildflowers
you
enter
a room a door
opens a door opens light
slides
a window
slowly shut
you
enter
a room
you make a choice
Eric Christiansen is a poet from Waldwick, New Jersey, where he has lived for more than twenty years before moving to California. After transferring from Grinnell College in Iowa, he received his B.A. in literature and creative writing from Ramapo College of New Jersey. Eric has been featured in such events as the Brick City Speaks reading series in Newark and attended the 2017 New York Writers Institute at Skidmore College. His poems have appeared in Small Orange. He is pursuing an MFA in poetry at St. Mary's College of California.