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Amid glass like plywood.
Beyond family, because family.
Any more but beauty
within reflection.

Into the  Into the
Through in the
bedrooms, undermarketed.
How much glass
within plywood?
How much grace
elsewhere
from grace?
  
Lowballed
into your reflection
due to family,
as glass,
as wood,
as on top of wood
because forest,
because elsewhere.

Through beam
amid equation
and question.
Out of look and inside look.

When the rent goes,
to the east with you,
in plywood, in glass.

Laurie D Graham

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BIO:
Laurie D Graham grew up in a bungalow in a suburb of Edmonton. She has had poems published in a number of co-operative housing projects, like journals and anthologies and vending machines, but she has yet to find a single-family dwelling for her first collection.