Nancy L'enz Hogan

A box, balcony designed by Flap
cardboard colored
cutouts for windows
Use the rusted trusty crusted knife to make more doors
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Flower beds are stripped
Patchwork quilts are
sheeted white
Crinkled Grandpa Tvedt, the gnome next door,
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Dank earthen surface
hard packed solid, molded to be
a floor of sorts
The mold is creeping well
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Whom should we trust?
Bear in mind --
dolls are not our friends
but they are predictable --
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Pouring from out blue vessels
the rich red steaming wine
streams into the porous ground
the soil receives the seeds of
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