Subduing the Sofa

Given the handsome design on the cover this is one I would love to encounter while unpacking my library as Walter Benjamin does

I am unpacking my library. Yes, I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

Where would one put Hollandsong by Marvyne Jenoff?

She writes in "Moving Up"

the huge new sofa
topples the room with its black
weight, moves in a changing
gravity as we rearrange
and finally give up on balance, unpack
little things,

our thousand
books to the ceiling
dusted one by one,
they get us back in scale.

Imagine books taming the furniture… for what is a surface without its volume?

And so for day 1795
12.11.2011