Day 606

There was a family
who lived in this house.
The house is abandoned now:
nothing but walls
collapsed onto other walls.
Charred doors.  Charred floorboards.
There were rooms.  There was the smell
of cooking, onions and garlic
and peppers.   There were voices
of children playing.  There
were grandparents reading
to grandchildren, a cat
who had kittens: kittens
wrestling each other
on the rug,  There were
rugs! Curtains. Lamps.
There was everything needed
to make a life.