Verse Archive
The Trapped World
It's true
you can be trapped
inside a world
that doesn't turn
from the inside.
But from the outside
turns back in.
Never knowing
which way is
East
or
West
(but more or less knowing the way up).
Switch your attention
to the left,
throw your neck
to the right.
You don't know
the way back home
because you don't know how
you got in—
obviously through the front door,
but where did the front door go?
It seems
that the whole world turns
but the city doesn't.....