Your elusive dollhouse shows no sign of any intervention to stay the effects of weathering and decay;
this Scots pine seasons of storms.
Your lover's dollhouse degrades relentlessly;
this wilderness performing the work of memory through a constitutive absence.
Your father-in-law's mitten string begins to slip over the threshold;
this Blackbird a variation on vandalism.
Your girlfriend's lunchbox shadows memory;
this forest floor a selective indifference to ongoing processes of decay and dissolution.
Your disordered cultivated space for interpretation breaks;
this spotted flycatcher attending to processes of decay.
Your daughter's farmhouse holds on;
this colourful mass of blossoms an aesthetic strategy of camouflage.
Your frayed structural remnant begins to slip over the threshold;
this puddle transmits spiritual significance across generations.
Your rusty lighthouse shows no sign of any intervention to stay the effects of weathering and decay;
this wild strawberry continually rewinds the successional clock.
Your palliative embedded contradiction gestures for terminal structures;
this thick mat of ivy a legible wilderness.
