Every Day

Les Bernstein lives in Mill Valley CA with her family of 15. Her chapbook,Borderland, has been published by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in CQ, the California State Poetry Society Quarterlies and The Marin Poetry Anthologies. She has only recently taken her poems from her pockets and desk drawers and into the streets.

Every Day
By Les Bernstein

everyday in the middle distance
I build my house
the foundation yoked to plausibility
a dreamscape yard

underneath a waking life
time holds no constraint
a charmed unconcern
makes sacred
altars for ordinary life
rooms built for forgetting

everyday I build
a structure from the roof down
beams high
a hint of dry rot

everyday I build
strange mysteries of small benedictions
no matter how unique
a story carved in bone
not exactly new

Posted by Annmarie at 10/17/2011 12:51 AM
Categories: today's words
Tags: Les Bernstein house life love build
 

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