finding home

i've settled in.

i can say that now, after

seventeen

moves

in my life. this is home.

this is where

i should be.

i know where everything

is.

i know the steps

going up or down,

the way the sunlight arrives

through

each window,

in each season.

i know the moon too,

how it hits

the water

in the stream below.

i know the creaks of

each floorboard,

the noises

the plumbing makes.

i know the dust, i know

the stuck doors,

i know the sound of 

the shutters when the wind

comes.

the sound of rain

on the roof.

i know this house more

than

i've ever known a house before.