{"id":2901,"date":"2026-10-15T00:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2026-10-15T00:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:13:24","slug":"pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2901","title":{"rendered":"Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I spy a pocket universe
                                                          \"There is a crack...\"
Enshrouded in darkness
Eyes seek the meeting place
where walls kiss the floor above

                                                         \"...a crack in everything\"

Neck pivots upwards, 
drawn by the shock 
of lumens registered
despite standing 
in my cellar, switch 'Off'

                                                         \"That's how the light gets in\"

We've had a breakthrough
it appears

The demolition crew
has pierced our wall
cracked the barrier 
between one realm
and another

                                                           And Where the Wild Things Are<\/em>?

They are here 
front seat to my chest freezer
backstage access 
to our Christmas tree, 
in vertical storage
eternal verdant flora 
the mark of a wizard
or a chemist 
in Pearl River Delta
at a faux foliage and fir factory 
in Guangdong Province


I will lie awake tonight haunted
by the light 
that filled my eyes
from the depths of the darkness
of my windowless basement
and will stay in my soul
as I wonder 
of the creatures
that will make their way home
through the pocket universe
in the wall
left by demolition crews
who care not 
about holes in the foundation
portals 
into my inner sanctum
left open
and unguarded



I wish
this were

a metaphor



The hole 
is 
there

The Wild Things
Are

Where?????




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\u201cPocket,\u201d an interpolation of Leonard Cohen’s Anthem with my real-time horror of discovering a hole in the basement wall big enough for a fox or a human to enter, prompting memories of Wild Things and fears of invasion, written Wednesday, October 14, 2026 poem 287 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: “Blinding Light,”  by Diana Ludwick \u00a9 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,811,262,200,887,2703,1572,2,5,263],"tags":[3052,3051,3053,3035,2677,3050,3042,3055,3038,3039,3047,3041,3048,739,3057,3040,896,9,3054,3045,3034,3043,3037,3044,1616,3056,3049,2943,3046],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-current-events","category-dry-humor","category-humor","category-loosely-hinged","category-maryland","category-of-place","category-poems","category-rants","category-snarky","tag-a-crack-in-everything","tag-thats-how-the-light-gets-in","tag-there-is-a-crack","tag-anthem","tag-autumn","tag-barrier","tag-breakthrough","tag-chemist","tag-chest-freezer","tag-christmas-decor","tag-darkness","tag-demolition","tag-enshrouded","tag-fall","tag-guangong-province","tag-holes","tag-home-renovation","tag-humor","tag-i-spy","tag-kiss","tag-leonard-cohen","tag-lumens","tag-maurice-sendak","tag-neck","tag-october","tag-pearl-river-delta","tag-pocket-universe","tag-shock","tag-walls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2903,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/2903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}