By Peter Gizzi, from the spring issue of Granta. Gizzi’s selected poems, In Defense of Nothing, was published last year by Wesleyan University Press.
but I found a way to say no
to the wood in my house
it kept creaking
wouldn’t stop talking
I found a way to say no
I need to be standing
in the warmth of the wood
that the sun made
I need to find myself dissolving
otherwise it…