Driving to Montreal

How godlike are these massives

Rising like the beat of bass drums

From the murmur of snowy plains

I don't know how to pray anymore

But the mountains don't seem to care

Shadowing my shadow with obvious sacred.

 

steam valves

our house has been too cold for a year
this year colder than last
but i did my research
i will fix these radiators
while you sit on the beach in your sunhat
i'll fix this old house
little ol' me
the radiator fixer

you'll come home with your tan

wondering what you were running from

Safe As Houses, Warm As Milk

The only way to do it

is the hard way,

to keep pressing ahead

kicking up dust

so I can be ignored behind

with the wet cloth.

80 years the barnacles of

improvements clinging

to the house, someone comes by

or a double act

stresses me out

and I forget of the barnacles before.

Which valve shuts off what,

what has me scrubbing squid ink

off the ceiling,

or panting, rocking back and forth

on the floor idly picking

at the sides of the hull.