Sarah St Vincent Welch #86 blue and green chairs

blue and green chairs

personified, I visit, 

wanting a cuppa, asking

for the next poem,

I've penned them already

as kissy, confiding,

unsteady. you chairs, are

intimate, whispering,

lonely today, waiting for a chat

outside the cafe.

can I tell you of chairs

at home? one a washing basket

another a laundry sorter

a computer chair (wide girthed)

a piano stool (distant relative,

I know, not really a chair),

standing in as table

and bookcase, 

they are less

worldly than you, less

interesting? you confide,

understand, as a regular bird

perch, ashtray, magazine

stand, balancing act,

masseur,

pissing post,

guide for the blind

shoe scraper

toppling tower

poem subject

chairs of the world

wanting more than

domesticity, you recognise

the mutability of objects,

pity those back home,

know you, the blue
and green chairs, can be

almost anything

I want of you