House as Found Poem
by Erin Murphy
Painters transformed a bungalow
from gray to marigold, then learned
they’d painted the wrong home.
The crew loaded their truck
and fled the scene. After a foggy
day at desks the color of dust,
the owners smiled pulling
into the drive, each assuming
the other had arranged this
bright surprise. Sometimes
even a gray world gives you
just what you need.
from gray to marigold, then learned
they’d painted the wrong home.
The crew loaded their truck
and fled the scene. After a foggy
day at desks the color of dust,
the owners smiled pulling
into the drive, each assuming
the other had arranged this
bright surprise. Sometimes
even a gray world gives you
just what you need.
Erin Murphy’s latest book of poems, Human Resources, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Ecotone, About Place, The Georgia Review, Waxwing, Guesthouse, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her awards include The Normal School Poetry Prize, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, the Rattle Poetry Prize Readers' Choice Award, and a Best of the Net award. She is editor of three anthologies from the University of Nebraska Press and SUNY Press and serves as Poetry Editor of The Summerset Review. She is Professor of English at Penn State Altoona. Website: http://www.erin-murphy.com