Between bars, the gaps <br />Hold, in suspension, stories <br />And with the closing of the gate <br />And the wait to turn from one chapter to another <br /> <br />The spaces appear as sentences <br />Beginning in upper-case and finishing with a full-stop <br /> <br />The bars reveal nothing but the yawning <br />(One gap; a slight variation on another) <br /> <br />The barred gates separate <br />Like asterisks or blank pages <br /> <br />The gaps, between bars <br />Store stories, momentarily <br />And the bars reinforce <br />The denouement or the moral<br /><br />Ian Syder<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/between-bars/
