I used to envy you
There in that house
Behind that fenced yard
You were the ideal
Binded by propriety
Until binded became blinded
And your insecurities grew
Your safety was your undoing
As the outside swelled
Pushing back on those pickets
Because you thought
The old could become new
Ochre Idyls
Poems, Haiku/Tanka, Short Fictions