Our New, Old Kentucky Home

No city wants to claim us,

they may have good reasons.

There’s always a chance

we don’t know

we’re crazy.

So, we’ll just go

unincorporated,

completely R.F.D.

If no city

wants to claim us

I say I claim you

and you claim me.

I’ve always wanted

to say to a yellow house,

“verde, que te quiero verde.”

You’ve always wanted

windows to break

and nothing at stake

in the Appalachians.

A little place

down the road

from the Blue Fugates.

We’ll measure time

in bounces

on the trampoline

and worry about

paving the roads

years from now

once the sepia

sets in

and all the goats

have names.

September 1, 2017