Nora Almeida / Houses

  Nora Almeida lives in Brooklyn with her two cats, Whitman and Goose. her poems have recently appeared in Phoebe, Tight, and Other Rooms. she has also managed to grow a thriving Habanero pepper plant in her bedroom window which yields peppers so spicy that they are almost inedible. Convergence It is safe to think it is safe underneath the monetary realm there is another realm which is also monetary this much is the elm tree fading from view this little portion of the country has no stop signs but when you are too tired you can pull over and I’ll drive for awhile you can keep the flower in the book to preserve it or hang it upside down and when the color leaks out like the sky-line is not colorless when it resembles our skin in the small circle of light from the dying flashlight I learned that the eyes narrow towards the central beam the house is constructed in the dark the eyes widen the house is the unbroken pattern of light extending before our eyes adjust the room is infinit