This House My mother lives here, alone,
sad as she'll ever be,
the house huge around her tiny frame,
dust laid in soft reproach on every horizontal surface,
every place planes meet an althing of gossamer.
Somebody's doing housework, she thinks
as she watches a busy arachnid the size of a comma
take over the corner between window-frame and door-jamb.
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