Issue Seven - March 2004

We Live In Unfinished Houses

By John Sangster

    Each day we wade into life.
    We have plans, of course!
    Things we'll get to,
    get back to.

    Someday we'll gather it all,
    enfold it in our arms
    like laundry, fresh and warm
    from the dryer.

    But a sock gets loose,
    a pair of silk panties . . .
    Behind us on the hallway floor,
    what we had in mind.

©2004 by John Sangster

John Sangster lives on Lopez Island. His work has appeared in several issues of SHARK REEF. His chapbook, Island Year, was published by Pudding House Publications in 2008. While working on a memoir about a one-year trip he and his wife took across North America, a number car poems began to appear. Those combined with earlier car poems might one day become a chapbook.

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