Poems for Persons of Interest

Carla Galdo  is a poet and essayist from Virginia. She has written for  Humanum ,  Dappled Things ,  Well-Read Mom ,  Modern Age , and others.                No Vacancy So much depends upon the missing puzzle piece that I spied before the vacuum sucked it up into its cavernous gray gut. Did it jump ship like Jonah, leap from the table to dodge its fate, or did a child just nudge it down? I’ll never know— but as I skim the hardwood floors, this much I do— we want to snap that final bit snug with its mate, to seal the ragged perimeter, turn scattered swirls of blue and green from chaos to a patterned sense. We want to rest lacuna-free with our cardboard conundrums solved for just a day at least. I say so much depends on this one piece, for even in this broken world where so much lurks undone, we long for perfect things.