There’s a wide-open gulf
between what-is & what-we-hoped-for,
a gap
we try to bridge, a home
we move into
secretly; past midnight & couches
appear, gaudy rugs
drape themselves over hardwood.
Slim doorways require the most
impossible angles! Some things
just can’t be made to fit. But imagine—
a table & a lamp in the far corner.
Nate Pritts took his BS at SUNY Brockport, his MFA from Warren Wilson College and his Ph.D. from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Currently, he teaches at the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts, a residential high school for gifted students,& at Northwestern State University. His poems have recently appeared in Rattle, Cimarron Review, Solo, Dogwood and 5am.
Nate Pritts was nominated for Poets Under 30 by the storySouth editors.