By Mónica de la Torre, from The Happy End/All Welcome, a collection of poetry that will be published in December by Ugly Duckling Presse. De la Torre is the author of four previous collections, two of which were originally published in Spanish.

She goes around the floor jotting notes on the chairs she sits in.

From each one her outlook is somewhat different.

The views gleaned from them are not in concert.

She has an overall picture, but it’s about to implode. Is this what people mean by…