This Poem was Submitted By: Beth A Rogers On Date: 2002-06-04 00:16:56 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The House That Jack Built

She scrapes mounds of mud  from her shoe, onto the step.  Raindrops drip from the roof  into a puddle nearby.  Her daily walk from the creek  solidifies in her mind the image  of their incomplete house.   The tar board walls haphazardly stand,  ruthlessly dubbed by neighbor children  as "the house of cards",  while eaves troughs are scattered  like pick-up sticks abandoned in the rain.   She had wished for fresh snow  for the holidays,  to adorn the barren ground  with a sequined white cloak,  reflecting the night's lights.   With a long drawn out sigh,  she fingers two tarnished cowbells  in her deep pockets,  bought to ring on New Years Eve.  She ponders her husband's wish  for "no Christmas",   birthed from the depression  that weighs down  his carpenter hands,   then walks through the doorway  into an open stud room,  to find Christmas amidst  the saw horse, dirt and nails.

Copyright © June 2002 Beth A Rogers


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