Riding the Liminal
Marcel, for whom the door is open
and closed at the same time,
lives off the edges of the canvas
in a world of objects drawn from the
precision and ambiguity
of words, his hand holding a frame
with no painting inside.
He places it so parts of the world
flow in, then he throws the frame away
and thinks about how to jump between
sixty-four squares according to
rules he accepts, a world
of strategy and attrition where
a boss-lady must die but the
elusive door man lives on.
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William Ross is a Canadian writer and visual artist living in Toronto. His poems have appeared in Rattle, The New Quarterly, Humana Obscura, Bicoastal Review, The Hooghly Review, Underscore Magazine, Amethyst Review, Bindweed Magazine Anthology, Topical Poetry, Heavy Feather Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and others.
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