Home Poem
My home is built into
My bones
A place where there
Are no unknowns
I know exactly where
The floor creeks and moans
And how the garden
Is sprinkled with stones.
My house isn’t big,
Nor is it small.
It’s the only home
I’ve ever known.
It’s the place I learned
How to crawl.
I know where the stains
are on the carpet,
I could pinpoint them on a target.
And when the window creates a
Beautiful sunbeam
My cat will sleep in it,
Making her fur coat
Look like cream
And when I lay awake
At night listening
To the furnace
I think about the
Earth that continues
To turn us
And how there are
People on it who don’t
Have a home…
But maybe I can help change that
With this poem?