The Leaning Cabin

100 free-verse words

Photo by Michael Scherback on Unsplash

rain falls
on splintered wood and bent grass
on bare trees and fallen leaves

rodent bones
molder on warped sills
an arthritic tapestry
swathed in dust,
distorted by leaded glass

damp ashes
forgotten memories
and broken promises
choke the cracked and fallen
hearth

instead of refuge, rattlesnakes
seethe in venomous coils
under rotte…