First of all, HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all my American friends!
On December 11th last year, an apartment complex that I pass on one of my walking routes burned.
Apartment fire – December 11, 2016 (Photo © 2016 by V. Nesdoly)
It wasn’t totally destroyed but has been unliveable these many months as it’s being repaired.
Though it’s not the most beautiful subject, there is something compelling about repairs going on behind curtains month after month and so it has been my photo / poem subject several times in the last while. On July 25th, in response to the photo prompt “Layered,” I took the photo below and wrote about it (in a shadorma):
Apartment repairs – July 2017 (Photo © 2017 by V. Nesdoly)
Layered
One afternoon
massive fire engulfed
water wrecked
smoke sullied.
Months later still rebuilding
layer by layer.
© 2017 by Violet Nesdoly (All rights reserved)
On October 16th in response to the photo challenge “Deconstruction.” I photographed and wrote about it again (this time in a senryu):
Apartment sheers – October 2017 (Photo © 2017 by V. Nesdoly)
Deconstruction
Construction gauze—
band-aids for fire-singed rooms
healing their scars
© 2017 by Violet Nesdoly (All rights reserved)
It will be a happy day when all that reconstruction is done and its people can move back in. (And so I’ll probably write about it again.)
I’m adding that last ditty to Michelle Heidenrich Barnes’ November Padlet, where this month’s challenge is to “write a poem that finds beauty in something that is not usually considered beautiful.”
Oh, and speaking of Michelle, she’s just completed the publication of The Best of Today’s Little Ditty 2016. I’m pretty stoked to have a couple of poems in that volume. What a great collection of poems from all the lovely Poetry Friday peeps! Congratulations, Michelle (and committee) for another great book!
(To add icing to that ditty cake–between when I posted this and now, my physical copy of the book arrived! It’s so cool to hold it in my hands!)
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This poem is linked to Poetry Friday, hosted today by Carol, at Carol’s Corner.
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