Rachel Hadas

In the Vestibule

The in-between is queasy

but all is in between.

Midsummer green? Monotonous

when everything is green.

The sea: a glittering question

when everything is sea.

This vestibule? Unsettling.

I teeter first one way

and then the other. In

or out? I am a fool

to be so caught off balance.

All is vestibule.

Author: Rachel Hadas

Rachel Hadas is the author of many books of poems, essays, and translations. Her recent books Include  LOVE AND DREAD (poems) and PIECE BY PIECE (prose selections). Rachel is Board of Governors Professor of English are Rutgers-Newark, where she has taught for many years.

Plume: Issue #22 April 2013