Poetry. Conversations is a long poem in seven parts. It frames conversation as space and/or location. The poem foregrounds the form rather than the content of an exchange: To have said of this room / what is finite is its outside / what makes it a room / walls there are six of them / furnishings may count but it is /the space that makes of it / what we will call a room / finite is the outside / all that counts as a structure / room but I see more things / to say of it this is a room.
Theodore Enslin is the author of many volumes of poetry including the recent Now And Then: Selected Poems from the National Poetry Foundation, available from SPD. Perfectbound chapbook.