houses

houses
stand like
brittle dragons;
denial
on open landscape
closed in

walls against the world
set
in boxes

they're never going to fall
like this

but come back around upside your face turned in

houses stand
and fall like paradigm lunch box

walls away fall away
disappear break

when you know each
is a house
is a one two three
built to fall containership
ice cube to the sun.

us, we, human people
endlessly
doing our
funny things
hunched up walking
lines
sideways
sidewalks
bundled in clothes
town paling

the old keeping heads down
young up, and round
walking in recessed spring

town paling,
its fabric
almost dissolves
pixled dispersion
its knots loosening
fizzling
gaps forming

fading

in what was once tightly held concrete.

loosens its grip on me, or mine on it
giving away
to nothing

these are just spaces
and not even that

a lightness pervades