April 8: Furniture

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Furniture
Lisa Allen Ortiz

I already figured out
that we imagine
the future and then later we exist in
the future
we imagined. So definitely
we are imagined creatures.

Last week my friend Farnaz
taught me the term
anticipatory grief
meaning we're sad now for a thing
that will happen
later.
Imagine that.

The blue chair with its
fabric-pattern plants
and birds.
I don't want to lose the world.

To keep things as they are
and to be happy
must I
imagine myself happy
or imagine myself
un-kept?

I can't figure that part out.
I just sit
in this bird-patterned chair
between the now and the then---
sad slot of time

that loves the world too much yet
mourns the very loving
as if mourning
were
a way to love.

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