Etagere Poems | Examples

Wanting

Oh, oh! 	pity party
I want          my old house back
I want it summer
	windows open    curtains    fluttering
                   in the ocean breeze

I want my carpet		sofa	     chairs
		desk	    etagere	
	coffee table       piles of books
				and magazines
I want my little kitchen
      	chopping block island
		            glass-front cabinets
	with the Chilmark pottery

I want my garden         rhododendrons 
 Montauk daisies
             the curved path with 
         axioms carved into flat stones
           
I want my white-fenced yard
garden shed	 made by 
the Martha’s Vineyard High School
	         carpentry class 

I want my wide-railing porch
                settee swing and chair
           		blue and white striped cushions
flower baskets hanging all around

I want my friends, my neighborhood
          ocean         beach plums         wild grapes
		for the picking

I want my old home back