Poet’s House

a tanka string

coming home
to this empty house
and full garden
a blaze of tulips
a tangle of weeds

picturesque
poetic image…
a leaking roof…
omg it’s raining
in our bedroom now

shattered vase…
flowers all over
kitchen floor…
possums in the chimney
marsupial vandalism

afternoon drifts
on our verandah
in the shade
another bottle
of chardonnay