There have been rooms for such a short time
and now we think there is nothing else unless it is
raining

or snowing or very late
with everyone else in another dark room

for a time beyond measure there were no rooms
and now many have forgotten the sky

the first room was made of stone and ice
and a fallen tree

with a heart beating in the room
and it was the ice that echoed it

because of a room a heart was born
in a room

and saw everything as a room
even what is called landscape

the present mountains were seen between moments
of remembering a room at another time

now there are more every year who remember
childhood as a room
in which the person they were is thinking of a
forest

but the first hands and first voices emerge in a...