tar paper on half the house
asbestos shingles mixed
with bleaching oil dipped
blue pipe staging
a variety of ladders
staging planks
forsythia
quince
all over-grown
blocking the front steps
still
one glittering pink egg from Easter two years ago
dangles from a branch
grass shaggy
(The neighbors' lawn mower is being repaired.)
black dog free-ranging
chickens too
reds and yellows
eggs at the back steps
in the dog bowl
under the lilac
rarely in the coop
yard hard scrabble
gone over and over by the hens
burn pile
laundry line hanging low in the dirt
with towels that have been rained on
table saw
toilet
garden
used to be
kale
garlic
peppers
tomatoes
now all volunteers
vining twining heaps of volunteers
and a little grave out back
in the shadow of maples
where we buried the old black dog
the one who ate ham under the quince
before it was overgrown
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