Infrastructure
I made a window
to keep out the cold
and the wren built
her home there
all morning I look in books
for a share of quiet
more than I thought I should
open up to
Poems on the topic: home
Poems on the topic “home” on Poets.by.
Consumers
thinking to alter
our minds we eat
the whole war
and cook the dead
our creature
aching to go home
Hushed
morning sandwich
deliver me from discourse
till the ship be brought
home safe
and there read to me
the history of pleasure
Aphoristic
water in the road
the rains carry me home
a rose becomes a good answer
to a crooked chimney
A hollow hemlock
A hollow hemlock:
peering out is more fun
than peering in.
I start looking
for a kite string —
the motionless vulture.
Thursday’s hurricane
sings softly
in my screen door.
The house he grew up in
long vanished,
he brings a lawn chair.
Poem for Display in a Public Library
To enter fully into another’s words
is to leave your own fixed residence,
part coffin, part cocoon.
The walls fall away.
Letters the color of night
swell with sirens & the call
of the whip-poor-will.
Out in the open book,
anything can happen except sleep.
Dreams may be redeemed
for a small deposit.
This is why, in the public library,
everyone is homeless.
Convalescence
in a home
rest
the whole day
off
Disenchantment
who today enchants me
with my weary head
full of accounts
again my journey
home to yesterday
that sorry peak
Renovation
home is a reckoning
with my eyes
which exed out
all the garden
and still expect a change
in one night
Weekend
tomorrow is the color
of the water in my glass
and today is an instrument
for perspective
a wren making her home
on my acre of nothing
but at night the yellow sun
is cleaned and oiled
staying among poor people
as a common blessing
TV war
a war the devil
could endure no longer
took us away
in our minds
out of where we sat
in an office at home
Circle
a coven in stone
might take us
for dead
and we in our ownwhere
might ache to be
by others
till night and ice
and so home
to my head
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