Colorado Vacation

We had a wonderful time visiting my sister and brother and nephew in CO earlier this month!  Here is a poem about the house that we stayed in (which they are renting), and a poem about my studly nephew, who is going to turn two on my birthday.

Poem on the Grange

Like a presumptuous pauper sits the grange on top of the agrarian landscape

The white house’s presence is announced miles before the rocked dirt road scratches tired tires

Sentinel raindrops welcome dusty travelers as swallows spin on aerial trapeze above

Mr. Manly’s air-aided layout leaves room for a wide walrus to slide across the great room floor

accompanied by his friend the elephant

Usually the hall settles for energetic elves motoring around the expanse with three-wheeled, two-footed power

The grange patio extends eleven miles over wheat, Denver and the Rockies

It swallows sauvignon vistas through its clear window eyes and sheds tears in two leather laz-e-boys

The fire department expects to alarm occupants of daily conflagrations igniting the clouds

Home, home on the grange,

Where the flies and the antelope play.

Where alone on the farm, stands the eccentric white barn

where the cousins can play all day.