Wonderful work. I love your descriptiveness, and I can really picture this place. Poignant and thoughtful.

I thought this poem was really swell. Ma and pa read it too. I was so delighted with it I ran down stairs and read it to ma uncle joe (twice removed) While pickin the grit from his teeth he said he would frame it. Then brother/uncle/dad said that I shouldn't read such things as it gave me fancy notions about the world. And I thought to myself what would the world be like without fancy notions.