DOUBLE CORNER LOT

They’re demolishing the brick colonial

The one on the double corner lot

That stood for 75 years

For two generations of one family.

 

They’re cutting down that 150 year-old maple

The one that stands in corner of the double corner lot

One tree, 150 rings

Shade from spring to fall.

 

The tree goes first

It took them all day

To chop off its limbs

Cut down its trunk

And grind up its stump.

 

A perfectly good tree

Offering up another generation of green in May

To the brick house in the corner of the double corner lot

150 years gone in a day.

 

The house goes second

It took them two days

To smash its brick and mortar

The second floor first

The first floor last.

A perfectly good brick home

Ready to offer shelter to another family

On the corner lot

75 years gone in two days. 

 

 

Reviews

[Michael G. Smith]

One hundred fifty years of good memories. That tree I'm sure lives on in others memories as well as the house.

[rutherford]

Thanks Michael

[Delmar Cooper]

Well thought out and expressed. It is as if someone recited the rules of entropy to you and you furnished the example.
Anyway bravo.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

we need the space i guess...whatever reason for ruining perfectly good trees and houses...just to build something else...

i love old houses...new ones are so modern and cold looking...no charisma.

[rutherford]

ah.... making way for the progress that takes away from us. I could almost see a visual in my mind of it happening and it hurt my spirit. Nice job... the writing and putting a thought in those who reads this.. mind and heart...

[rutherford]

Thank you SimplyNisa. It's a house and a tree at the end of my block. I had to take a moment and memorialize the passing.

its good to etch in our hearts, minds and the memories that which meant something to us and even those from the past.. The purpose, the sadness... and not understanding why.