Thursday, April 10, 2008

Home

I'm teaching a workshop on writing about Home this month. Here's a little something I started at the first workshop on Monday night.

Home

Later it wouldn’t be the basement
or the solo bedroom with gold trim
or the orange bookcase

It would not be the apartment on Marigold
or the duplex on Chubbuck Road
It wouldn’t even be the house, finally
ours, on Chase. Home?

Who can say
It’s not this small kitchen
or the dusty baseboards
the muddy backyard
the arrangement of four walls
and furniture, beds and sofas
or the accumulation of books and time

It’s the presence of bodies
in such a space
the husband, the son, the dog
and the kind of quiet
that only emerges
from sleep & snow

3 comments:

Lisa B. said...

sleep and snow. very very quiet. I like the space of the poem.

ErinAlice said...

I like it-especially the memories of Marigold and Chubbuck Rd. Seems like another lifetime. Very well done.

Nik said...

And, for all the snow, the poem reads warm with the yellow and o sounds.