Rectangular prisms piled
open doorways
to an inner world
of calm
outside of me
inside
steel columns welded
to a universal psalm
hold the universe
in almost squares
less than perfect prayers
squared to themselves
where space should be
less than rectangular
more than truth.
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Neil Ellman lives and writes in New Jersey. He has published numerous poems, many of them ekphrastic and based on works of modern art, in print and online journals throughout the world, including Alba, Anemone Sidecar, Carcinogenic Poetry, Counterexample Poetics, ditch, Blue & Yellow Dog, The Camel Saloon and the Red Poppy Review, among others. In addition, he has nine chapbooks to his credit.
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