Directions To Our House
*** Directions to Our House ***
To find our house, you first go
Carefully down the towering show
Of those puffed cloud stairs
Touched by golden sun-glows.
Proceed to pass the nearby hilltop’s forested grove,
Where you might glimpse the hidden homes
Of some remaining urban fox and deer.
Then, turn left and leaning your body slightly back,
Go halfway slowly down the steep hill —
Trying not to slide out of your shoes —
To the point when your balance starts to screw loose
And take another left to halt your fall. Then
Tip-toe cautiously ahead, dodging at least
Four kids running back to home base,
Chased by three dogs barking,
Watched by two toddlers in red wagons crying,
And a mailman in his white van parking
By our blooming pear tree, and trying
To stay out of the way…So, keeping all that
In your far sight,
Take fifty short steps more to arrive and be by
Our brown, wooden house
— Set between a row of others just like it —
Where a pair
Of mourning doves has chosen
Our roof fly over and perch on, devoutly cooing
To each other from every dawn til the groaning.
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(c) sally young eslinger 12/10/2022
Thanks be to God,,,
Copyright © Sally Eslinger | Year Posted 2022
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