The wisteria is climbing the kitchen door;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I pull it down, but it keeps looking for a new angle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was such a long time ago that Laura and I<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Painted the trellis for that vine–it was just<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beginning to grow, and the flowers smelled so sweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Summer lasted forever in those days, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I thought it would take about that long for that vine<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To outgrow the cage we were building for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But now, it reaches for the very house,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scaling its walls, shouldering into cracks,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pulling it back to the dust of its origins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This house wants its mistress, but she is dust already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I tear down the vines; they don\u2019t resist much<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because they know that soon I will be gone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And they can go back to their slow work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But can\u2019t I stay, just for a while? The mistress of this house<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Would never turn me away; she would drag me<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To the couch and bring me cookies and tea<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Wouldn\u2019t matter much if I was hungry or not)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And ask me pointed questions, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Look me up and down to see what I might<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Have to say for myself. Here, in this outrageous silence,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is not yet gone. The wisteria will have to wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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