Edition of 1, 2022
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS is a spoken-word, media-rich poem that explores the evolution of love in marriage.
The text’s experimental format breaks down the question–“what more can come of love?”–to echo the way romantic love transforms when faced with the structured demands of the household.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What more can come of love?
Children: we have.
Sex: we’ve had.
Of love: the way its doors swing in, hinged.
What: I reside, dwell, abide, identify each object by its drawer.
More: blueprints tell us where the bedroom hangs.
Can come: to enter the space of home is to house, to hold.
What more can come of love:
every day blows its bit of wind.
See the doors:
still, they beckon in.
