Five Directions to My House (after Juan Felipe Herrera)

by: betty powdrill published: 11/09/2025

1.     wind through the tangled roads, arched by trees

2.     cast your eyes over fields of yellow rapeseed, aroma sweet

3.     the top half of a lane, split in twain, marks my street

4.     unlatch the sun-bleached gate: clunk. creak.

5.     home now sings to you, as it sings to me