New House, Old Stuff

 

Tables and Chairs

Cute little tables.

Adaptable, charming, old

Or new, mostly wood

But maybe painted.

Creating nooks through the house,

Cozying it up.

Sometimes bested by

Irresistable little

Adorable chairs.

Black and White Dogs

The man down the street's

floppy-eared black and white dog

recently passed on.

This man lives alone.

The dog was his true best friend.

We just moved here,

Don't know the dog's name,

but I do know the sadness

of losing a dog.

Out walking today,

I saw another old man

walking his old dog,

Black, white, floppy-eared.

I thought of my new neighbor,

and his fresh, raw grief.

Too Many Cooks

Moved to an old house

With a congested kitchen.

I painted it orange.

I cluttered it up,

Put my little ceramic 

Rooster on the sill—  

A pepper shaker.

The hen, a salt shaker, went 

To the resale shop

A few years ago, 

the rooster being long lost...

Found, under the stove.