CORNERS
Corners are a meeting place,
they hold the room together.
Spiders know this and construct their
webs there to catch the most traffic.
The masons knew this as well,
what are walls without corners, natural supports?
They provide guiding architecture like a city limits.
An artful design and definition.
Wallflowers use corners as an escape,
albeit a most temporary one.
Corners marshal the eye away from monotony,
from the sprawling of plaster monsters.
They can be storage for things less immediate.
Provide a sacred geometry put into practice.
Act as a mediating intersection between things.
You could write an entire poem about them.
Corners have become that important.
Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Borderless Journal, GloMag, Red Fez and Lothlorien Poetry Journal.
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