Wednesday, January 28, 2026

House, Corner Lot


 at the Olsen House,
Cushing, Maine




House, Corner Lot

 

That haiku are thought

more often than written down:

light’s eight minutes old

 

who even knows that

so much of what is being

is somewhere else

 

nailing it down means

yes, a hammer, and yes, nails,

but too a roof, or

 

rough structured framework

bracketed to the flat, firm

cement the men poured

 

last week over stones

hauled in from some pit, then dumped

strategically on

 

the bottom, made smooth

with feather delicacy

of thumb and pointer

 

up/down up/down/up

down/left to right/left right 

smooth flat then flatter

 

the joystick’s his proof

in the excavator’s cab

his precise pattern:

 

five seven and five

right?  the pattern of breathing

while a hole is being

 

made, & being made

boxy & framed & finally,

hole’s filled partially

 

 

 

to hold those wood bones

to hold open or closed

a window, a door

 

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