TOM CLARK: House Shopping (Josephine Miles: $7,500)

Oregon City: photo by Austin Granger, 30 May 2016

Josephine Miles: $7,500

I cannot tell you what a bargain this is,

Built at a cost of seven thousand, selling

For seven five, and all the utilities

In, and trees.

Landscaped front and back, strings up for lawn,

Tiles, wrought-iron fixtures, entrance hall

With an echo, echo, echo, beamed ceiling

And a Southern feeling.

Marvelous in this spring month, in this empty field,

Out of the already forgotten hammers, hands compressed,

So like a snowdrop sprung, white, delicate, and new,

With mountain view.

Josephine Miles (1911-1985): $7,500 from Lines at Intersection, 1939, in Collected Poems: 1930-83

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Marvelous in this spring month, in this empty field

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Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 30 May 2016

Oregon City: photo by Austin Granger, 28 May 2016

TOM CLARK