The Exhibition

She enters the exhibition.

Rooms
and rooms of paintings
stretch out around her.

What is the correct order:
of rooms,
of paintings?

Gripping her pamphlet,
she begins the task,
stepping up to each canvas.

The paintings are of rooms.

Conceptually, she enters
a room
within a room

one after another.

She steps back.

A red dot.
Then another.

But not enough
not nearly enough
to sustain this weight.

The costly frames.

Her own room waits:
brushes soaking in water.

But this
this has changed everything.

She steps outside.

Outside, 40 x 30 cm, acrylic on canvas