Dreamt

by Adrienne Braun

I dreamt I got a chair,

a room full of chairs, sitting

there waiting to fix up

this alone, as if a child

could shore up this side,

and a partner that. As if

we would sit and chat,

as if my mistake with you

didn’t keep jumping out

of the past to sit on

the rocking horse chair

going this way and that,

as if life did not repeat

did not repeat

did not repeat

but

something we could walk

around at last.