Mud caked boots
from feeding the horses in the last storm,
prominent beside the screen door.
Cast off end tables, replaced by something nicer,
hold nails, screws and a light fixture-
in limbo between house and shop.
action figures, baby dolls and a jump rope
scattered among the various tools,
abandoned-
their owners called to dinner.
Wet mop hangs upside down,
testimony to a days work,
Real friends enter on the back porch,
honest understanding
of the family found past the threshold.
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