Yem

how make this place

home?

what is home

anyway?

& where

this place

that needs

be home?

how we

make it

whenever,

wherever:

roof, rooms, fire,

walls, bed, stairs

to walk up

and down,

shelves

to order thought,

doors to open,

close, to

keep out

and in,

taps to turn on,

water

to drink

and wash,

light to read

and bathe in:

_____

we, is

always home

we, is

where we live

when,

whenever,

where,

wherever,

with you

is,

has always

been

(so

unalone,

so,

unsingular)

home,

at last

_____

a place to be born

and wake in,

somewhere

to be,

to

return to,

to go out

from:

a shelter

subject to floods, to fire

and other

attritions,

to bombing,

demolition,

to pestilence

and plague,

to bulldoze

eviction

from anywhere

and everywhere,

to exile

from

here,

from now

_____

to be without

a heart

is to be

without a home,

to be without

& within

at once,

a home