A widowed light dapples checkerboard
linoleum. Sister joints sorrow, termite
eaten, supporting ceiling and floors above
A water bug marches slowly through
one wet square then two, a six-legged tap
The hibiscus bush outside blooms despite
years of neglect, centers of hot pink,
wanton woman lipstick, lavender dancing
skirt petals and a wand of powdered yellow.
Lucy Simpson, 6/9/2011


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There still are such monuments to that disaster. :(
it danced for me. :)