Poem-A-Day

Doors

          after Christian Marclay

by Patrick Hammer, Jr. 

So many days, years, 

decades of doors I have 

entered. The first 

in this life via my mother.

I crossed over, a tabula 

rasa. So many doors, so 

many faces, places so far. 

Some doors plain, some 

ornate. I have opened some

as one person, walked 

over the threshold, only 

to exit a different person. 

Some doors I have found 

locked; never allowed 

to enter. Some I have left 

behind, not wanting to, 

never crossing again. Some 

I have returned to, over 

and over. Some have led 

to other doors and more.

One will lead someday to 

some untimely but numinous 

last portal that I will throw 

open.

~

A member of Blue Stone Poets and Jane Street Poets, Hammer lives in Saugerties. He is the author of Saugerties Local, among other books.