Abandoned A-frame,
between your shattered rafters
winged ghosts come to rest.
This is one of the many empty dwellings here on Blanca Flats. "It's always the women who want to leave," our real estate agent told us when we bought our own A-frame about two miles from this one. "They miss their families; they miss the shops." This house was built for a family who lived here for awhile before the wife declared that she couldn't take the isolation. Behind the house is an old moving van that yawns open, as if the family stopped in the very process of moving their belongings into the house. Doves and pigeons have taken up residence in the van and in the house. If you walk around the property, which I've done before, the house seems to explode in an agitated whir of wings.
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