THE HUMAN’S CHAIR

Chad Norman

for the Truro, N.S., S.P.C.A.

What ends up with a history of travels

seems to include not only vehicles and explorers but a chair, ugly and used, once in an office, only to be given up, and given away,

plucked from a dumpster to comfort dutifully, yet another strange rearend.

How the human made the choice came down to the one with castors,

and obviously the colour, a worn green, the colour that means so much to them connected to their attempts to save

their properties, and perhaps, the planet.

What ends up being the important act seems to include leaving the chair, decide to bring home a different comfort, she whose name is Simona, also given up and given away, a different choice

finally found in a room of open cages, with a look  in her yellow eyes

saying only one thing, ” Please, choose me, all I want is to sit close, stay warm

in the chair I know you have at home.”

Casa Harris April 19, 2012

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