Funeral for Home
Watercolor paper stacked
rough as old hands–
heater grates open
to a desert.
Florence Boulevard smolders
in inch-deep volcano ash–
thick merlot carpet
petrifies like bone.
A ghost kicks dirt
in the basement. Long
hairs drizzle the bathtub.
Hornets lull the dead,
fruit drops and worms feast.
Jesse Rice-Evans 