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Upstairs Apartment
Ron Parkinson, Blogger-Poet
Published 06/27/2009
- 5:04 p.m. CDT
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Every day the same,
quiet as a church.
Chalice of cut flowers,
an offering of mints.
Thin sweet smell
of tired perfume.
Timid rubber boots
kneeling, neat and nervous
on mats that say WELCOME.
Never a man to notice.
But once I saw galoshes.
Huge and heavy
with buckles that bellow when you walk.
Sprawled wide open,
splattered with mud.
A barn wet with wild eyed horses,
or an excavation,
jackhammers,
concrete and steel.
The mat was thrust forward
for all the hall to see.
The woman’s boots,
erect, elegant,
leaned over,
nuzzled the galoshes,
blew in their ear,
while they laid back,
looked up and down the hall.
Surveyed their kingdom,
smiled,
and settled in.
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