Each season
You weathered
Porcupines
Who ate
Your roof
Beetles
That chewed
Your boards
Mice
That birthed
A hundred nibblers
Inside your walls
Worms
Who digested
Your sawdust
The storm
That brought
A javelin of
Black cherry
Through your roof
My neglect
Your resignation.
Melissa Shaw-Smith 
That’s so good Mel, I love your way with words, and what a great art shot!
I love how you touch the soul of an ordinary thing, and relate to it.
Thank you, Cynthia. I’m always delighted to hear when my personal ramblings manage to spark something in others.
Your writing makes me happy. Always.
That’s such a lovely compliment, Lex. Thanks so much for letting me know.
As with too many of my deepest relationships!
Like it? I love it~!
The thinking goes, maybe if I give a shout out to the poor old shed I won’t feel so guilty about neglecting it.
Better water the roof while you’re at it …
Love that roof, can you see the headline: “Pot Plant Goes Berserk” … “Interviewed today, the grumpy tree muttered to our intrepid reporter to the effect that ‘if water won’t come to Mo, then Mo must go to the water’…”
(Ye gods—a zen tree?)
My god I’ll never look at that shed the same way again!
really like, doesn’t need the picture, stands on its own, and the art does make us happy.
Laurie
Thanks, Laurie.
I really, really like this-both the words and the image do a superb job of conveying how we and nature interact with our built environment. And buildings like these in the end, show Nature wins–again-there is such as sense of melancholy in this image-well done!
Yes, that’s what makes me happy–nature wins! I always feel as though the woodland is creeping up on me, trying to reclaim our little plot of land. So glad you liked it. Thanks for letting me know.
So beautiful and magic!