[Critique Group 2] poem for July 26 critique session

[Alice Massa]

*Wallpaper Dreams*

267-word poem by Alice Jane-Marie Massa

Between Clinton,Indiana's Mulberry Cafe

and the Rockville Packing Company building

was the Smith-Alsop Paint Store,

where,

when my dad was buying paint and/or brushes,

I thumbed through twenty-by-twenty-four-inch books

of wallpaper samples

in floral and geometric designs,

textured in various ways

to initiate

interior design dreams.

[Stanza 2]

Five decades later,

I, once again

in the midst of wallpaper dreams,

wonder if I should wallpaper

one wall, one room,

or the small bathroom

with the poems

of my retirement years.

[Stanza 3]

Surely, online, I should

be able to find

a "design-your-own-wallpaper" company

to whom I can send my poems.

Then, the company will send me

rolls of my poetry

so that someone with a straight-line concept

can decoratively paper my walls--

well, the walls of my small, mid-level bathroom

where house guests will be face-to-face

with my pasted poems--

flush against left margin,

sprinkled with coordinating art.

Guest readers will see

that these poems mirror my life:

as the house guests peer into the bathroom mirror,

more reflections of poetic creations

rush into view--

an usual way to read the poems on the back wall.

[Stanza 4]

Have I gone too far

with these wallpaper dreams?

You think the better placement

of my poems

is in a traditional book?

[Stanza 5]

Later, Leader Dog Willow recommends

photos of herself

for the design-your-own-wallpaper company.

Well, I do already have

towels with a Black-Lab motif.

[Stanza 6]

We will creatively compromise:

two walls of poetry

and two walls of Willow,

who will transfer better in mirror image.

[Stanza 7]

Celebrating 68 years,

I happily and artistically

surmise an overview

of my dream-fresh life

in wallpapered

paws and poetry.

July 19, 2018, Thursday


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