Photo by Hannah Timms
Homes I Have Built
Buffy Aakaash
I have built
things this life enough things
People still insist things be built
I am done building
ready to live in homes
I have built
I have already married
already divorced
already raised the only
children I will ever this life:
the infants of my misgivings
the toddlers of my imaginations
adolescents of my wild perceptions
evolving into philosophers of the stars
in these homes we are
looking out broad windows
mountains behind
the sea in front
through skylights to heavens
or at home in the luminescence
of green fallen snow
from this life from now on
the pathways run
every which way
I am engaged with broad
smatterings of vagus arteries
wilderness trails of heart
not the lost roads
and hard pavements
of others’ dreams
I once traveled with resolve
and made it through
Buffy Aakaash
I have built
things this life enough things
People still insist things be built
I am done building
ready to live in homes
I have built
I have already married
already divorced
already raised the only
children I will ever this life:
the infants of my misgivings
the toddlers of my imaginations
adolescents of my wild perceptions
evolving into philosophers of the stars
in these homes we are
looking out broad windows
mountains behind
the sea in front
through skylights to heavens
or at home in the luminescence
of green fallen snow
from this life from now on
the pathways run
every which way
I am engaged with broad
smatterings of vagus arteries
wilderness trails of heart
not the lost roads
and hard pavements
of others’ dreams
I once traveled with resolve
and made it through