Monday, March 18, 2024

Fixer Upper

 

Fixer Upper

Scraping moldy wallpaper
easily peeled
we find a message
scratched by pencil
on plaster:

  Pleas love this house
  where Babys grew
  So much joy!
  before sorrow
  When spirits call
  pleas give
  our Blessing

Might spook buyers
lower the value
but pleas…
Over this spot
we place glass, a frame.
Not all flips are the same.

…..

First published in Halfway Down the Stairs. Thank you editors Jeannie E. Roberts and Phillip Watts Brown.
Photo by Daniel Tuttle

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