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It took a long time but
you were at the museum.
Maybe you thought you were more
or less impermeable, I don’t know,
and who would blame you,
you need to contain, to maintain
integrity, just walking around
like that. You did walk around
in the museum, and the question
kept itself inside the whole time
(but inside what?) until you left,
went back out into it again.
Jon Woodward’s poetry collections include Uncanny Valley, Rain, and Mister Goodbye Easter Island. He lives in Boston and works at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.
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