Thursday, November 6, 2025

Interesting word Poetic Asides

 

Red Up

 

When Mom told us to red up the house,

we groaned, but didn’t think it unusual,

growing up in western Pennsylvania.

 

But moving out west to Nebraska,

then Wyoming, then Colorado, 

if I mention the need to red up the house,

 

people look at me as if I had decided

to run out and buy buckets of paint

and turn my entire house scarlet.

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