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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIEW FROM HIS ROOM, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: His room was big and clean
First Line: His room was big and clean
His room was big and clean
and the scene from the window
was cheap and stayed still
long enough to be photographed
correctly. Always one to check
out the view from the window,
to see what was framed away.
All the same to stand still and look out
upon this place that could be home.
This place might be home someday,
seeing shutters flanked by rows of fenced backyards,
seeing a mother waving to him,
seeing a red garter belt hung on a clothesline,
seeing a pair of green stockings,
seeing a pink slip dancing in the wind.
And remembering
The Reverend Monsignor passing by
in his special car. These people
in some way may become his -- uneasily his. The clothesline too,
a simple clothesline. What a miracle of thinness sloping through
the yard like a border between two countries,
a border between two yards,
a border between two
persons side by side.
Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org
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