Building a Fire
Broken picture frames
used for kindling,
this house is not the same
in winter when,
against the cold,
the fine things
grow dull and the tall
things fall supine.
A book of matches
from a titty bar ages ago
can still make fire.
The neighbor watches us,
inside our jars,
throwing ourselves against the glass
to see what exactly this
goop inside us
looks like.
