This Barn of Barns
written by: John Grey
Inside the barn, some stalls remain
but there’s no sign of horses and chickens.
It’s just a junkyard these days,
storage space for tins of paint
and thick hard brushes,
a tire, a carburetor, some rusty hubcaps,
and the remains of a jeep.
Only a few wisps of straw testify
to the efficacy of the building’s past,
when the surrounding acres were
a working farm, and not prime real estate
for a drab development of look-a-like houses.
These days, it’s an outlier but hardly an outcast.
Yes, it creaks, even shakes, in brisk north-westerlies.
But the winds of change are no bother.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Soundings East, Dalhousie Review and Connecticut River Review. Latest book, “Leaves On Pages” is available through Amazon.
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