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Your Grandfather’s Cottage

Megan Mealor

This storybook depot
tells of tawdry baroque fires,
intangible bygones,
punch-drunk operas
embittered in brocade,
settled in sateen damask.

The texture of my shadow—
rawboned with jarring seams,
slavish in the shrieking embers—
rescinds itself in rare revolt.

A rococo relic trundle
imprisons passing passions
inside intricate poppies,
grape-thorned vines,
footboard ornament angels.

Lusty windows yawning,
renegade starlight makes
straight for our thunder,
for once believing everything.

 

Previously published in Neologism Poetry Journal, November 2017

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