Stainless steel doors part wide
Square room, steel walls, steel floor
Featureless box almost
One cryptic panel begging exploration
Push a button unsure
Steel doors slide shut precisely
Farewell to this world
Electromagnetic action stirs stale air
Rumbles flesh and alloy
Dimensional travel turns in my gut
Everything stops
Steel doors peel open triumphant
Unfamiliar world tumbles into view
Nearly the same, nearly different
So this is the third floor?
-T. Weeks
(A response to “On the Beach at Night”)