Upon the Unlikely Radiance
within a Zillow Listing

Poetry | Rick Hollon

In Ohio the sun shines

for just one day in October

when realtors swarm the hills

their cameras light-starved

supping at last upon gold

and boys taste wind in their kites

for the first and only time

before retiring to raincoats

and broken trailer homes

And so it was when we loved

only in dreams of the future

a commercial promise of backyard

and middle class securities

and our love dimmed

when the gray work of

day

to

day

settled in