It is not the sturdy 
wooden beams
that raise 
the house 
aloft
that I study
 
but instead
the rotting 
wooden plank

still dark 
and wet

that has
washed ashore
alone
that will hold
my attention
forever


 
  	
 		 	
  	
Beau Beausoleil
  	
 		Beau Beausoleil is a San Francisco based poet, but has deep ancestral roots in Quebec going back to the 1700's. He is the author of 13 books of poetry, the most recent being, A Glyphic House: New And Selected Poems 1976-2019 (Blue Light Press). 	
  	
  		
 			 			 			 			 			 			 			 			 						 		
  		
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