Verse Shapes
Interior Design
Architectural wood moldings--
crown, rail, base, and trim at
doors and windows, as well
as fireplace mantels--
are sized in proportion
to the spaces they
ornament,
a plain profile
for small
rooms,
bold
and
richly
carved
for rooms
of state.
Architectural wood moldings--
crown, rail, base, and trim at
doors and windows, as well
as fireplace mantels--
are sized in proportion
to the spaces they
ornament,
a plain profile
for small
rooms,
bold
and
richly
carved
for rooms
of state.
Crescent Moon
The
moon in
her crescent
phase had a
pair of horns,
people said in
ancient Egypt,
like a white cow
or the beautiful
goddess Hathor,
shining by night,
which might
just elucidate
in the Mother
Goose rhyme
why the cow
jumped
over the
moon.
The
moon in
her crescent
phase had a
pair of horns,
people said in
ancient Egypt,
like a white cow
or the beautiful
goddess Hathor,
shining by night,
which might
just elucidate
in the Mother
Goose rhyme
why the cow
jumped
over the
moon.
Inclined Plane
Praise
to Archimedes
for the lever, the screw,
the displacement of water to find
the volume of a body, the word eureka,
and the inclined plane we employ in construction.
Praise
to Archimedes
for the lever, the screw,
the displacement of water to find
the volume of a body, the word eureka,
and the inclined plane we employ in construction.
Table Lamp
Topped
by a con-
cave shade
of parchment,
or the yellow skin
of a victim stretched
over a wire frame, the
lamp
assumes the
form of a pine-
apple sheathed in
mathematical rows
of greenish brown
leaves like darts or
old dragon scales
mounted on a
square of
inverted scrolls.
Topped
by a con-
cave shade
of parchment,
or the yellow skin
of a victim stretched
over a wire frame, the
lamp
assumes the
form of a pine-
apple sheathed in
mathematical rows
of greenish brown
leaves like darts or
old dragon scales
mounted on a
square of
inverted scrolls.
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Robert Boucheron grew up in Syracuse and Schenectady, New York. He worked as an architect in New York City and Charlottesville, Virginia. His short stories and essays appear in Coldnoon, Fiction International, Litro, New Haven Review, Porridge, Poydras Review, Short Fiction, and other magazines.
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