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This little house has
Crooked windows
Slanted stairwells
Sagging ceilings

A stoop bathed in sunlight
stormy blue and white
Red and white leather
Diner booth for two

A garage smelling like gasoline
Six classic cars covered in canvas
Photos from sixty years ago
Framed in tarnished gold

Off the bedroom is a tiny porch
Too old and weathered to use
-KM

a week in panic:
little red spots
on my arms
and legs

worry as a
constellation:
my back in
red blotches

one trip to
the e.r. and
a small tube
hydrocortisone

still don't know
what it is
-Hannah