Ewen Glass

Place Setting

Hash.
Hessian.
Create a table
for us to sit
                             in lines,
cross-
hatched pauses,
discrete as numbers,
levied fair (whole)

on
all diners.
Render a stalemate
in patterns or,
                            in time,
ask
by breached bone,
whether cell-by-cell
means together

and
side-by-side
apart. More Sunday
lunches in March
                             and rhymes
that
have to be
met more than half-way,
or — not at all.

Ewen is a Northern Irish poet who lives in England with two dogs, a tortoise and lots of self-doubt. On a given day, any or all of these can be snapping at his heels.