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Elizabeth Aamot
Architecture
I have never seen anything like it.
Suspended
on the bathroom wall
in the dank box
of my father’s house
that place
where the air curls with smoke
always. It has been there
for years, and despite the filth, the twisting
disgust boiling in my gut, I can’t
disturb it. I think it will
hang there forever:
this dome of cobwebs, round and heavy
with dust, this grand marquee, this temple—
the perfect cathedral of spiders.
Elizabeth Aamot was 2005 Poet Laureate of the
University of California. She is currently co-editing
The Eye of the Beholder: A Poets' Gallery, an
anthology of ekphrastic verse, with Maurya Simon. Her
poems have most recently appeared in Naranjas y
Nopales and Ready2Rock. She lives in Riverside,
California, and teaches English at San Bernardino
Valley College and creative writing at Idyllwild Arts
Academy.
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