Journey - “Departure Gate”
Christoper Wiseman writes, “And things were always waiting, the journey over,/Not left behind, the way it feels today./(Dad, since you died each day is tilted wrong.)” The journey is emblematic of human life which has inexorable terminus ( death).
Domesticity - “Mrs. Rowley”
Mrs. Rowley embodies endemic domesticity for she deals with: “To custard,-powder, potted meat and spices./The next morning, a huge brown box of food/Would somehow appear at our door, as if from on high,Fragrant, packed lovingly. Those fat fingers!” Mrs. Rowley’s supplies are contributory in the cooking of innumerable meals at the household. The supplies are explicitly employed in the kitchen sphere which exemplifies domesticity.
Houselessness - “In The Basement”
Wiseman asserts, “One night perhaps we shall creep/Down and surprise them./But now, our claim to the house less,/We go to bed earlier and earlier.” These lines propose that the basement offers a temporary housing for ‘houseless’ people. The going-ons at the basement during the night validates that possession houses is not assured. The basement qualifies as an unconventional house where the houseless people can slumber momentarily.
