42opus

is an online magazine of the literary arts.

20 October 2005 | Vol. 5, No. 3

The Week in Renovation: Thursday

You have to wonder

who would leave

a ladder open

in an empty lot.

You'd need

an extension

to claim your reward,

at least. I heard

it's still there.

I'm going over there.

I'm sitting it out

to see who comes

to claim it.

Of all the objects

torn from their contexts

and left on the side

of the road, this time

I want to ask:

What in hell?

I want, for once, to get

to the bottom of it.

About the author:

Carolyn Guinzio's book West Pullman won the 2004 Bordighera Poetry Prize and will appear in a bilingual English/Italian edition this year. A new manuscript was one of ten finalists for the 2005 Del Sol Press Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Indiana Review, Luna, New American Writing, Octopus, Colorado Review, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. Carolyn has an MFA from Bard College and has received awards from the Illinois Arts Council, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Kentucky Arts Council among others.

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