M.A. Vizsolyi is the author of The Lamp with Wings: Love Sonnets, winner of the National Poetry Series. He is also the author of the chapbooks Notes on Melancholia and The Case of Jane: A Verse Play. Vizsolyi teaches writing at Purchase College and Goddard College.

In the Guise of Couplets

by M. A. Vizsolyi

every room came furnished half-real & dead like
mirrors on skin yet we whispered it doesn’t matter

what but we did & checked under the beds & in
the closets sometimes surprises & whole other


rooms with other things once a child’s room &
a tiny pink house that was also abandoned empty
People on couch
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