WHAT LIES CLOSED
by Barry Spacks
what lies closed may open
as a roof suggests a house
as a door implies a room
as unguarded houses a town
as a town a world in space
as in boundless silence sound
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Barry Spacks‘ poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review and hundreds of other journals. While teaching literature and writing at MIT and UC Santa Barbara, he has published novels, stories, three poetry-reading CDs and 10 poetry collections. His next book of poems, a collaboration, is A BOUNTY OF 84 from Cherry Grove (August, 2012).