After Louise Bourgeois’ “What Is the Shape of This Problem?”

by Sloane Scott

Louise Bourgeois/Fine Art America

What is the shape of this poem? If it contains some burning. At the end of many red-orange threads there is a torment I tug on in the hopes of beginning, and I start unraveling

the capillary action I’ll propel it with as you are picking a light that will not guarantee. This is revenge you’ll resent, although the hour to do so has ended. The clock is pushing

us forward into day’s lighting. Here and now I am finding the sky is less filled with smoke, although the sun is in descent. Somewhere or somewhere, the small hours are condensing.

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Somewhere or somewhere, the small hours are condensing, the sky is less filled with smoke, although the sun is in descent. Us forward into day’s lighting: here and now I am finding,

although the hour to do so has ended, the clock is pushing a light that will not guarantee. This is revenge you’ll resent, the capillary action I’ll propel it with. As you are picking,

I tug on in the hopes of beginning, and I start unraveling. At the end of many red-orange threads there is a torment. What is the shape of this poem? If it contains some burning.

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Sloane Scott is a sophomore majoring in English at Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in the international poetry journal SOFTBLOW and in the Hawai’i Review. She is never without her thesaurus.