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by Anthony Kupferschmidt

Leaves

I am just as capable

of plucking a dry orange leaf from a lofty branch

and rending it along its frail veins

scattering its dust into a breath of wind

But despite these many faculties
I can not restore that leaf
green and whole
to that height
in the spring

A Small Room
A small room
with bare mundane walls
and a door with a lock
and windows opened wide to the world
with curtains undulating and billowing
into an unencompassing shell of a space
so soft and vacant
that it readily adapts to your presence
like the lacklustre grey carpet beneath your feet
or your hair roused by a breeze.

A small room without
you
no longer graced and invigorated
by the world
you choose to take down off the walls
and carry with you.

Anthony Kupferschmidt is a student in the Department of Gerontology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.