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YOUR CART

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.  

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
Issue 1: September 2023
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