It's Still Life

An American Sentence for Toni,
inspired by the Found poem “Stare” below.

I.
Within our house of stone and wood, down the road we stare.
We sit. We stare.

 
II. (variation)
Day 65: I Think It’s Wednesday

The wall is loosening.
We are still closed in.

In the house.

Of stone.
Of wood.

Stare down the road.
Stare.

III.
STARE

My wall is loosening.
We are closed in,
turned in somewhere.
In the house.
Of stone. Of wood.
Stare down the road.
The stare –
we fed the stare.

The Found poem is based on “The Stare’s Nest By My Window” by W>B> Yeats. Public Domain ©️ Misky 2020