"The Landlady" by P.K. Page (Poetry Analysis)

"Pass silently / the craving silence swallowing her speech; / click doors like shutters on her camera eye."

"Yet knows them better than their closest friends"

"Prays she may catch them unprepared at last / and palm the dreadful riddle of their skulls— / hoping the worst."

"Because of her their lives become exact: / their entrances and exits are designed; / phone calls are cryptic."

"Nothing is unprepared. They hold the walls / about them as they weep or laugh. Each face / is dialed to zero publicly."

"Wonders when they are quiet, jumps when they move, / dreams that they dope or drink"

"[She] trembles to know / the traffic of their brains, jaywalks their street / in clumsy shoes."

Which is NOT present? "but even so / is not content./ And like a lover must know all, all, all."

unlocks their keyholes with wire of sight/searches their rooms for clues when they're out/pricks when they come homelate

"Through sepia air the boarders come and go, / impersonal as trains."

"Oh, her ticklish ears / advance and fall back stunned."

"their cupboards & the secrets of their drawers, their books, their private mail, their photographs are theirs & hers"

Knows when they wash, how frequently their clothes/go to the cleaners, what they like to eat, /their curvature of health

"She peers / stippled with curious flesh; / pads on the patient landing like a pulse"