Heather OC: Week 8 of 208

Colonize I

A Golden Shovel after Margaret Atwood

Time will ease guilt; you will not remember whether

The plot you have built your house upon, the

Windows soaking in false sun, is wilderness

That soothed another; is

Someone else’s real

Estate. Sweep floors or

Wash those panes. Not

Caring depends

Upon a brain sponge on

Hyper-drive, who

Thinks she is better and lives

In her stolen home there.

MA’s original line from Margaret Atwood’s “Circle Game:” “Whether the wilderness is real or not depends on who lives there.”