Web and Barn

                [Inspired by “Dwellings” a photograph by Angelia Perkins]

Relying on frame and curve,
knowing about impermanence
and loss,
the maker is a temporary tenant
dwelling within line and arc,
only as long as filament
can hold the heave
and sway.

Her abandoned dwelling,
not quite in ruins,
glistens with rainwater
in front of a fading relic,
depending on accident
and an imperfect geometry
that once set a whole
community to work.

Sharing more than geography
and season,
an acre’s ephemeral neighborhood
reminds: 
what lasts will not last forever,
and what goes away is worth noticing
before being lost.