Monday, July 6, 2015

house in Gretna

TV antenna
still rests atop
steep-pitched peaked roof
right above my bedroom window
looking out at the Busse house
through the line of plum trees

and the old sidewalk
almost overgrown with grass still
borders white-clad house resting
on cement foundation

remember
the time we moved the house
to dig a new basement
without a cistern

trees surround with
stately summer-green steadfastness
in yard and garden of TV antenna memories
which merge with
present panoply of
experience and concern
in this peaked childhood home

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