PROJECT REBUILD


PREVIOUS TENANTS

Vancouver Special

Not failed attempts at beauty
and vibrant
new
life

or stating, they are unique answers
memory
loss
twilight

to specific questions. How can I fit
my family into my mortgage?
pay cash
it was a ruin

How can I live on the land
allotted? What can't I afford?
heck not much but the check comes, $1000
and our good looks

How to emulate the look
of elsewhere, to be of.
grace
charm

Grace in the form of a front lawn,
make stucco sophisticated.
seed it wild
trees, bees let there be

All those glittering bits of glass.
Connoisseurs prefer sheets and
expense
not the worst house on the block, so what, make me

reflective surface, wood that reminds
of wood before its felling. Once more,
we embrace
we kiss and we don't stop

this time further east, with feeling.
forest, mountains with snow
and west the sea
we can sail

no one will ever mind
we camped here so
long
and they'll be glad when we go

but for now
now
now
now

Lemonodo

RENOVATE THIS POEM

RENOVATIONS:

The Laughing Man

scone

 

BIO:
I love it here