Temperance

The house in the trees along creaking floor,
with foliage caked on the cool wet pavement outside
Pastoral scenes marry across graying light
Comforting seats one might just melt into

Dominion held sway through revolving doors
Booming calls echoed across stately hardwoods
Dwelling in cellar, one's pervasive wonder
Cracked urgent mews beg for inside

Lovemaking subject to morning's intrusions
Living satellites orbit, gaining reception
Forgotten remnants reclaimed, revisited
Firelight colors a warming illusion

Places, bookmarks, and highlighted context
Foundations drop anchors, the soul's respite,
sometimes obscured in a shuffling dystopia
sometime roots of a moment's re-visioning

Oh, beckoning call of communion and challenge,
newly hatched plans - misguided wagers
Miscued sunlight filters hill and stream,
shines down to bestow a forge of friendship

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