| August 30, 2021

Domicile

I live in this house,

just right for me—

many bedrooms and

places to pee.

Its colors are diminutive…

petting my soul,

so nonthreatening.

I easily stroll,

passing objects

of memory…

who’ll die someday…

in the house with me.

Charles Inge lives in Lynden, Washington and has given us many poems!

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