30x30 2012 #21

Ghost Clerk

I have been standing in this store

for as long a time as you

think, millennia

I have always lived here

I am what you think of a bad little clerk

Every mannequin represents a bad thought I did

and they are all posed so public

So long-limbed

Everyone thinks I don't have a home and I don't

I am only here, that's the big reveal.

Have you ever had to learn to put

down what you most want wasping

round you? When you alone tie the sash

I am there. Yes in the liminal

corridors around the changing room

I press my finger ungenerously

to the seams.