Best Renovating Poems

pounding 
grinding 
drilling
sawdust
plumbing scraps
empty boxes 
strewn from 
bedroom to bathroom
and everywhere in between ...
a miner's shanty once
propped up 
on timbers with 
no firm foundation ...
that's okay
jack it up
pour a footer
it has one now
reroofed, rewired, re-plumbed
remodeled 
renovated 
and added onto 
more than once
it was never
big enough
when...

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Larger than large, fostering the void, 
Rippled iron for the walls, roof and door,
Above six-foot legs reaching up from the dirt, 
To cradle the woollen greased floor,

With broken old memories in the years now at peace, 
Years from the sheep shearing and men,
Years of disused...

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