Porches
November 9, 1981
Now I know the need for porches, dry roofs for hard summer rains.
Porches are the place to remember
yesterday's undone thing.
What was it I left
unmended, untended,
twenty years too late?
Was it an old plow rusting in the rain?
Pumpkin flowers shoot
into hayrake prongs,
laughing at the loss of memory.
Dry roofs for hard summer rains.