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of thee I sing

the true measure

of a civilized society

are the rumors

told by its ghosts

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this house has a history

i put on some water for tea

then decided to mop the floors

of our new little nest

before the furniture gets carried in

before the rest of our lives happen

Murphy’s Oil Soap

water and sunshine into a bucket

carried through the echoing emptiness

of what will be

over original hardwood

placed there in 1941

i love to clean

the ritual of it

i write in my thoughts as i work

images painting themselves

into spaces around my gentle humming

spreading wet across the grain

seeing hands that mopped this floor

before me

wives husbands

fathers mothers

lovers and

put-upon teenagers

oh this house

has a history

built the year

the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor

it’s all still there

nailed down memories

layers of time entombed in wax

someone stood in that living room and heard

we dropped the bomb

we landed at Normandy

of a flag raised in Iwo-Jima

Kennedy was dead

Vietnam was a lost cause only good

for folded flags being handed to weeping mothers

Nixon was a crook

Reagan and John Lennon had been shot

the Berlin wall had fallen

i heard first steps

crying babies

crying widows

joyous laughter

say cheese

wine glasses clinking together

realizing with a smile

this floor is mine

the foundation of a family

and i will love it

then

the teapot

began to whistle

Tags Americana, cleaning, family, history, houses, joy, love, Ohio, soap, Tea, War, writing

addiction Americana art behavior furniture happiness history poetry

fuck you, literature

i am free

because

a french man

loves me

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The Good Works of Gustav Stickley

Post author By aayoung
Post date December 28, 2014
1 Comment on The Good Works of Gustav Stickley

the Stickley brothers

five humble boys

from Osceola, Wisconsin

began making furniture

at a factory belonging to their uncle

in Brandt, Pennsylvania, 1877

the existing works of

Gustav, Albert, Charles, Leopold,

and John George

are honored today in museums

around the world

for their enduring American

simplicity

unsurpassed quality

and utilitarian charm

there exists a Gustav Stickley sideboard

at the Cincinnati Art Museum

which once resided inside

The White House

in the early twentieth century

one is never to touch

anything in a museum

everyone knows this

but the docent was drowsy

unable to keep his eyes fixed

on my circular pitter pat

through the presidential gallery

the magical black

marvelous mahogany piece

featured

a most alluring

perfect

brass lock

eyeing the invitation

for the longest moment

i could not resist

sticking my finger

inside the keyhole

of the Stickley

smiling gloriously

at my wicked little sin

Tags Americana, Art, Stickley, The Cincinnati Art Museum, The White House

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