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...The abandoned Mansion was once owned by the Adams Family.
They were doing a terrific business in their lumberyard at the time.
Day laborers who were not busy were sent over to build their home.
It...
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Categories:
lumberyard, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Adlibb and Phade
...They called it
Allusvain Sandite
The layer beneath
The sircrete, which
Had used both cement
And tar to create a
Permanent seal.
They used bankrun gravelsoil
To cover the aircrete
And when d...
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Categories:
lumberyard, anger, art, motivation, repetition,
Form: Bio
Adlibb and Phade
...They called it
Allusvain Sandite
The layer beneath
The sircrete, which
Had used both cement
And tar to create a
Permanent seal.
They used bankrun gravelsoil
To cover the aircrete
And when d...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
lumberyard, anger, art, motivation, repetition,
Form: Bio
Adlibb and Phade
...They called it
Allusvain Sandite
The layer beneath
The sircrete, which
Had used both cement
And tar to create a
Permanent seal.
They used bankrun gravelsoil
To cover the aircrete
And when d...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
lumberyard, anger, art, motivation, repetition,
Form: Bio
Adlibb and Phade
...They called it
Allusvain Sandite
The layer beneath
The sircrete, which
Had used both cement
And tar to create a
Permanent seal.
They used bankrun gravelsoil
To cover the aircrete
And when d...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
lumberyard, anger, art, motivation, repetition,
Form: Bio
Adlibb and Phade
...They called it
Allusvain Sandite
The layer beneath
The sircrete, which
Had used both cement
And tar to create a
Permanent seal.
They used bankrun gravelsoil
To cover the aircrete
And when d...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
lumberyard, anger, art, motivation, repetition,
Form: Bio
Adlibb and Phade
...They called it
Allusvain Sandite
The layer beneath
The sircrete, which
Had used both cement
And tar to create a
Permanent seal.
They used bankrun gravelsoil
To cover the aircrete
And when d...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
lumberyard, anger, art, motivation, repetition,
Form: Bio
Adlibb and Phade
...They called it
Allusvain Sandite
The layer beneath
The sircrete, which
Had used both cement
And tar to create a
Permanent seal.
They used bankrun gravelsoil
To cover the aircrete
And when d...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
lumberyard, anger, art, motivation, repetition,
Form: Bio
Central Avenue
...actually it wasn't a sad time
when they paved the street where I lived
I liked to see the works and the machinery in full swing
workers installed cement posts
and every thirty meters the lamps ma...
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Categories:
lumberyard, childhood, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry
Abby and Jake
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An enterprising widowed woman is Abby McClure.
She owns and operates a lumberyard, and is financially secure.
Her sister Maxine can't stand to see Abby unattached.
She knows a man named ...
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Categories:
lumberyard, children, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
He Knew How To Slaughter a Chicken
...He knew how to slaughter and dress a chicken
She baked bread every Friday in the tiny kitchen
He built their one-car garage from lumberyard scrap
She grew veggies on hardscrabble soil, for her...
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Categories:
lumberyard, family, grandfather, grandmother, tribute,
Form: Ode
Evening
...EVENING
Evening falls and wings are folded
Darkness clothes the weary sky
Birdsong awaits the daybreak
And rest descends on all
The battering hammer of the smithy
The barking blade of t...
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Categories:
lumberyard, eve, metaphor,
Form: Imagism
Tuesday Night Poker
...On the occasional Tuesday night,
with my mother at work
and my sisters and I
in our pajamas,
my father would invite over
his brothers
and his friends
from the lumberyard
to drink beer and...
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Categories:
lumberyard, boy, candy, chocolate, family,
Form: Narrative