Storage Shed


Gray and violet shingles on the pine.
Tulips vivid, unnatural. Clothesline,
Two sheds, one blossoming with rust
Through white enamel paint, its orange crust
Giving to deadly, perforated red.
Vague flowering bushes fuzz behind the shed.
Foreground is a dogwood flowering
Whiter than the clouds, or anything.
Its shadows tangle on the outbuilding:
Gray on gray, flung like a Kline, they stripe
The complicated gesture of a tree,
At angles reproduce the waterpipe
Which drains the roof unnecessarily,
Casual on the manufactured wall.