Here

 HERE

— "Let us leave theories there and return to the here's here." — Finnegan's Wake

When all the doors out appear—

for one reason or another—

closed, an alternative approach 

to bloodying your forehead 

on the little, steel-rimmed window 

is to shrug your shoulders, 

whisper welp, and then turn 

inwards, taking fresh stock 

of these four walls and noticing

how blank they really are, 

how much might be made 

of them with this new surplus 

of manacled attention.