Fred Schmalz

Demolishing the Burned House

1. today’s word              dust
2. super-ceiling                                  sub-floor
3. live in us
4. independent our invitation
5. retell upbringings
6. leaving the deaths in
7. an arrangement where
8. everyone gets younger
9. news given grace
10. broken                even
11. as the love of my life
12. found in grammar unintended
13. meant to say meet me
14. hear       mean     echo fell
15. bereft in faint light
16. blue television on
17. with no one there
18. no absolute silence
19. body machine whirring
20. teeth struck together
21. musically                             crystalline
22. water                                water
23. door jarred                 axe
24. this was never my era
25. in the first place