This House Withstood

by James Croal Jackson

The blue plaster walls are cracking
which we should have

been able to see as long as
this house has stood. I catch us looking

different directions on the highway, cars zipping
through; we nearly collide something

cosmic. Meaning our souls are ready to ascend
from our bodies to some greener plane,

being that we aren’t who we used to be
to each other– that’s okay, if physics

on this shared sedan don’t match the laws
we have known. We make the rules then break

what we have made.

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