Poem: COURTESY OF ANOTHER VACANT SPACE

COURTESY OF ANOTHER 

VACANT SPACE 

(Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield, 

February 2017) 

I’m in the Hepworth gallery
where someone’s draped
their coat folded over the chairback
and left their case slanting the seat,
with their tight-rolled umbrella
angled precisely across it,
I’m appraising in indecision
from different perspectives, see
a comment on impermanence,
the transience of art and presence,
the outsider nature of being
and nothingness, absence and
what remains beyond leaving,
but no,
not installation sculpture,
just left by another drifting art-geek
in the Hepworth gallery