Falling in Love with the Remodeling Contractor
Updated: Jan 17, 2022
Falling in Love with the Remodeling Contractor
You
Paint-splattered
In navy cotton
Enter my living room
Like stars in a hurried sky
Flecked boots tracking chalky prints
Which I leave on the floors after you go
For two weeks
Your working stirs
Dust
As the neglected corner of my house
Becomes a palace under those thick
Animated hands
Zealous when smoothing walls
Or pointing at reason
Heralding a serious heart
That rockets out your mouth
Talking of your father’s first American job
I wonder
What hands lie beneath the
Mud and paint
What body draped by blue coverings
What hair buried under the flown powder of a day’s work