Foreclosure
Tell em to take my bare walls down
my cement abutments
their parties thereof
and clause of claws
Leave me the land
Scratch out: the land
May prose and property both die out
and leave me peace
Lorine Niedecker, "Foreclosure" from Collected Works. Copyright © 2004 by Lorine Niedecker. Reprinted by permission of University of California Press.
Source:
Collected Works
(University of California Press, 2004)
