Mistakes

1

The subject will claim

that she has been taken

to the wrong place.

That the room

she is brought back to

is not the room she left.

That these comings and goings

are happening

to someone else,

are gathering momentum

controlled by a secret

mechanism.

That she needs to tell

someone.

               2

I walk out the door

to the stone bench

without meaning to

(without meaning it?),

each step

jarring my frame

as it would anyone’s