Paper + Stars

Wrapping wallpaper builds border
and order to the edges of a room unbound
by doors only archways to divide
the dining room and kitchen should
you ever be unsure of your location
in the home the fault will not be
with the wall paper

Pattern repeating pattern set to
alternate on the half bouncing
broaches of victorian elegance
across each room

Broken lines hide inside the elaborate
design repeating pattern leaf on leaf
details so specific identifying the
redundancy is difficult

Thick trim of the knife slits the
paper surface leaving only glue back
clinging the sheets together

What is the sky shown a corner
of paper peeling back off the surface
of the stars causing the clouds
folding in on one another

The sky rips off as a calendar page
clouds crumpling on clouds
behind the paper is a starfilled forever
they blink on waiting
to harden in the light
for the white heat of the sun
recoloring the shadows
blot them out against the sky
curing the colors of the stars solid
until their time is up and again the corner shows
a page is ripped off the sky
again we see the stars blinking