Realization

As if I had recently died and saw 
the house from a new angle,
where I now stood outside this 
defiled square, my husband’s
weekend home improvement.

I should have let him watch the game--

Yellow paint a summer sunrise
fluorescent, searing.
Blinding the neighbors 
making me cry.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2006

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