#962 - a house is a lot to remember

 

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a house is a lot to remember

 

step lightly

where I will put a thing now

dust and cobweb

there are others

old parameters

 

a refuge from numbers

    or should

please pipe nothing in

 

all this what-the-forest-was

a fine chapeau

no regrets

 

it sets the woods to laughter

gathers beak to crumb

 

grass up to where you cut

jaunty

 

a house is all of us

 

bend to pick up from the floor

best socks, best underwear

 

a little locomotive puff

for winter come across

first far

 

it folds inside the head

 

empty where there’s echo

all told

 

when you’re away

a snail Achilles

 

handkerchief  outside in

to make a little purse

bear along belongings

 

it coughs which is a sign of breath

stutters out

 

will the house be still there

and when we go?

turn off the lights

 

unseen then one traipses through

 

you have to pack the heart

 

a number on the street

a definite presence we are