Three Dimensions 

Several small houses
Discreetly separated by foliage
And the night—
Maintaining their several identities
By light

Which fills the inside of each—
Not as masses they stand
But as walls
Enclosing and excluding
Like shawls

About little old women—
What mystery hides within
What curiosity lurks without
One the other
Knows nothing about.
Credit

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on January 27, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets.

About this Poem

“Three Dimensions” was published in the December 1915 issue of Others.