Wood Cabins Next to Long Shadows

If you translated

Our title at all,

If your thoughts matched thoughts

Of wood to cabins

And shadows to long,

You gave them meaning.

You probably made

A little picture

Out of memories—

Maybe an image

Of cabins huddled

On a mountainside

Or in the dark woods.

Probably wasn’t

An image of books,

One with the title,

Wood Cabins, guide

To building them well,

On a shelf beside

Long Shadows: Truth, Lies,

And History, by

Erna Paris, both

Hardcover copies

Owned by the landlord.