Home's where the structure's business
gets done and over and over and done.
Possession is nine tenths of a house,
the other tenth, which does the whole job,
is arriving and arriving on the path's path.
Each repetition petitions the squirrel
for permission to be remembered
the way that acorn will feed the tail
as strengths fail in the face of winter
and its sawblade bones. Teeth!
These brittle white shards
gnarled by the uncaring years
flashing in anger and fear and happiness
mixing another cocktail of forgetting
as another place gets lost.
Roman Ryan 