Your house follows
in your feeble
footsteps. She is

animate, too.
Her foundation
shifts, hinges creak

like knees and hips.
No need to rue
her humdrum looks.

You reroof, sod
her yard. At dusk,
her doors will lock.

Sandi Stromberg has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for Best of the Net. Her full-length poetry collection Frogs Don’t Sing Red was released by Kelsay Books in April 2023. Her work is widely published in literary journals and anthologies, including Unknotting the Line: Poetry in Prose, Panoply, San Pedro Review, and The Orchards Poetry Journal. She serves on the editorial staff of The Ekphrastic Review.