Home Federal
A merchant is
probing for us
with his chintz curtain
effect.
*
“Ha, ha, you missed me,”
a dead person says.
*
There’s the bank’s
colonial balcony
where no one has
ever stood.
Copyright Credit: Rae Armantrout, “Home Federal” from Veil: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 2001 by Rae Armantrout. Reprinted with the permission of Wesleyan University Press.
Source: Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2001)