28 October 2005 | Vol. 5, No. 3
The Week in Renovation: Friday
They tell you
that when you think
you can breathe,
you'll bury
what you draw.
Most trouble starts
near home,
they say,
where you think
you can breathe.
Talk to nine people
and you will hear nine
signs of a change
in the weather:
harbingers,
signals, the breaks,
good or bad,
that will follow.
They all say
that the last house
standing after
the twister
was later taken
by something
from within.
About the author:
Carolyn Guinzio is the author of Quarry (Fall 2008, Free Verse Editions, Parlor Press), and West Pullman (Bordighera, 2005), winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Cannibal, Colorado Review, New American Writing, Typo, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Bard College and lives in Fayetteville, AR.
For further reading:
See the complete list of work by Carolyn Guinzio at 42opus. Browse the contents of 42opus Vol. 5, No. 3, where "The Week in Renovation: Friday" ran on October 28, 2005. List other work with these same labels: poetry.
