the new couple

it's a small brick house.

three rooms.

a yard

for the dog.

a line for the wet clothes

to dry

in the sunlight and wind.

a chain link fence.

he and his

wife

and two kids did fifty years

there

until one died and the other

moved to florida.

the kids all grown and gone

to the side

of their own lives.

and now a new couple

has arrived.

they wave from the porch

as they

start it all over

again.