LITTLE QUESTIONS

LITTLE QUESTIONS 

But neither plaster, nor/ marble, nor stucco rooms/ end your search for/ the end of the rooms/ or a roomless door.---Hannah Stephenson, “Next Door”, The Storialist, 12-28-11 

There must be a little door

that will not end in a room.

Space is all. Is there an end

to these rooms? An exit

into a free space all my own? 

I require a room-less door

to step out of when leaving

would finally mean being

unbound, no walls to fence me

in,  no house to shackle a home.  

For what would a sky be for?

Why would suns set over hills?

Suns rise from the edge of seas?

Why do springs expand to falls?

Why is beauty is own excuse? 

Whence come this splendour,

what does it mean for a flower

to bloom? When all questions

have been answered, where

ends he whose end is a question? 

Or are answers simply next door? 

--- Albert B. Casuga

12-28-11