No Activity

there are trees in the painting that

portrays a house out of nowhere,

in a land that does not exist because

someone thinks it should be there;

Guenter Limburg

the trees have a hint of snow, even

though it is summer and the cabin

has a chimney spewing out smoke

when clearly no wood has been cut;

we have waited for days for the

inhabitants to leave so that we could

clean it out and move in but there

is simply no activity in the painting.

2017