The Good House
Rod Smith
2001
$6.00
1-930068-07-7
Though the house is willed it is also shiney—though it spares others, some it doesn't, though it has a child, it is clear, stolid, imperious—though it laughs at the waking needy, it compels grace, walks awake the named, any of them, any & others, clear it has, clear it laughs, house though some, house & rescue, also shiny, in the sounds made, in the sounds created, in the sounds & in their laughing, it is a house to be reckoned with, built in the mania of inaction, a still, unbuilt shining thing where the knowing crosses into every, where you would, & the sounds are made tame, & the sounds til, & the house sounds, & because, & I would do the house a favor, & fill this sounding, & would is shiney in the sounds, built, unbuilt, a laugh or child of them, the sounds, the grace, the poetry of the house, its seeming, but it has never seen itself sound, yet its knowing can, because there is no false in it, again it houses as it had & has house being, green eggs or ham, & puts Peloponnesian there, shiney, holding the deranged oracle by the ear, making its wishes, housing the one it loves, with a sound