The article offers criticism of the poem "Doors 1," by bp Nichols. Phyllis Lahey initially interprets the poem as an expression of fear and solitude and looks at it as a reflection of a private place inside a person. Jorden Marshall questions on what the poet was thinking when he wrote the poem. Meanwhile, Jocelyne Doray states that she cannot hear or relate to the sense behind the poem and describes it as a sequence of cryptic lines.