Keeping House




The dryer ticks and cools while I fold.
My warm shirts stir the musty air when
a rush in the pipes startles the silence.
"Hello?" I ask the joists.
But the dog naps knowing 
no one is there.
It is only the dishwasher draining,
sending the ghosts of children and men
running through the walls.

 
 – Teresa Kiplinger

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10 comments


  • Bonnie Klehr

    Love the art of your jewelry. We’ll done!!!!! I’m an artist who came to jewelry late & always stressed the why of art that you do so well!!!


  • Tierney Zan

    I love the sad beauty of your poem.


  • Deb Durant

    ACHE.. beauty & other things


  • Debs

    All my dwellings sweetly live on, whispering of times gone by, bookmarking the spirit of my youth and the passage of time.
    so spirit reminiscent


  • Aims

    OMG! No words to describe how this hits me – simply a GASP!


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