Wrong Room, Sorry
Alexander Moysaenko

What he thought was a ghost
was the latch on the door.
A light on inside.
He looked in as long as he could
while shutting himself back out.

There had been a boyishness
about the way this room
brushed its hair. And had about it
a gratitude, the bamboo hairbrush.
Hotel sprinklers going.

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