Deconstruction Site

To think they were back there all that time someone said

meaning the half-dozen snakes of three different species our bathroom remodeling project displaced

but my own thoughts kept dwelling on that huge nest of razor blades in the wall where the mirror had been

We propped up the roof and ripped the bathroom walls out keeping the fixtures intact so that the shower stall stood fully exposed to the breeze and blowing rain for half that summer

Ah whatever else might happen in this lifetime I’ll never have a better bathroom