Hotel Letters

White dot-patterned
Wolford stockings.
Piles of makeup and glass
bottles of nail polish.

Photographs silver-duct-taped on the wall
from the studio wall in Brooklyn:
Bettina Rheims’ postcard of her photograph
Karen Mulder with a very small Chanel bra,
Doris Peter’s Children collecting scrap metal,
George Washington Street.

Black dress and cream blouse
with a very thin black ribbon tie.
Thick denim shorts, too big, childlike.

Floradix and magnesium pills.

Polaroids and magazines.