Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 12:45AM
of vulnerability
at close range.
It is far harder
than Frost's mending walls
outside, to stay in the house
and not scream throughout the house
or yell out the windows that the cleaning fluid
is suffocating the man. And the career accoutrements
are bludgeoning the woman.
Wires shorted, bulbs out, circuits flipped,
she will not shut up. she will not.
vulnerability during
renovation is going
to the place of reading
the directions out loud
to find the breaker box; all the while
pretending that electricity
was my broken nail and
not electricity stopping
our hearts.