Where It All Goes Down
A Weird Nature Poetry House
No seriously.
The poem doesn't just give us one setting; it overlaps a couple settings. It's kind of like when you have a dream, and you feel like you're in the house where you grew up, but you're also kind of in the house you live in now, but it's also a place that you've never been before in your life…
You're with us, right? We can't be the only ones who have dreams like that, right?
Anyway.
The poem overlaps the setting of a house with images of nature. So on one level it's this crazy house with lots of windows and doors, which might not be enough to get it into Architectural Digest; it's nothing too special.
This house gets way more surreal, though. Its network of rooms is a forest of cedars, and its roof is the sky itself. If that's not an Architectural Digest cover story, we don't know what is. This surreal, dreamy setting works perfectly for a poem about the power of poetry to expand the mind. Our brains feel bigger just thinking about it.