Returning home

Once I had to return home

but the door was locked,

the house for sale and a stranger

had to be called to open the door

with a new key. The cypress tree

by the driveway had been cut

down when I was a child; the one

in the front yard survived

the subdivision until its branches

tangled the power lines during

a hurricane. But the impression

in the yard is still there, though,

right where the stump was,

suggesting an eventual subsidence

into original swamp.

Photograph by Yagan Z Dongobar via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.