Jean Valentine

Little House


Little house
clay house

thousands of funeral smell
ground swell

we knew
the boat of right action

but the road rubbed out
—water gone!

—the dead girl gone!
(was she pregnant?)

dishes blew by
I searched my hollowsrubble

Burnt grass teach me
before I forget you

into a time
when I sit and roar

over the flowers
and don't know them