What does the old woman say as you pass?
Clearing, and sweeping across the floor
The voice repeats.
Freckles like watercolor
Dripped from head to toe.
Wooden floor, hands and knees,
I'll paint each square just so you don't forget me.
Coyote nipping, police scanner calls,
Pumpkin-colored farm light,
Furnace monster
Her breast cancer,
Scratching at my back,
All my dreams
This is just memories
Still polluting, still polluting
Indefinite boundary,
My heart is a swamp.
You pinned down my soul
Bondage straps across my chest.