At Great-Aunty's

From: Indiana Review | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: Williams, Roger | Copyright information

Halls the span of a boy's outstretched hands

Debouched into the nineteenth century

And shook out between the Roosevelts.

It seemed air would shatter the horsehair furniture.

Silly crockery in the pantry abutted the iron age.

The waterworks were two hand-pumps and a privy.

Her bachelor brothers had enshrined their puttees

And fly-eyed gas masks-the junk of their one adventure.

Of an evening a single lantern shone

Like a lighthouse ...

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