subtext

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rattling knobs

always more doors
open and shut
missing keys
missing locks
open into rooms
hallways
outdoors
indoors
deeper interiors
cloistered ruminations
echo of emptied rooms
troubled voices behind
locked doors mumble
cupped ear pressed
to wood listens
for reason
to flee from
or enter through
another door
always another

(April 14, 2014)