home
House renovations
and a new color of paint
can make the world new.
Is it still the same house after we
replace the front door and the roof
and all of the windows, and repaint it that trendy spruce green with Nantucket-white trim?
From the outside at least, it will look like an all new house.
But inside it still tells the stories of 100 years of life,
of seasons past and flowers planted.
The bedroom door knobs worn shiny
from witnessing the crawl of history
through the eyes of city dwellers.
Missed Connections are filled with good, bad and home-improvement-haiku. Did you write one? Did you find one? Before you start scraping off the old and painting on the new, email the link to Lovelorn Poets. We’ll preserve those spruced-up-syllables for all eternity.
