Signs
An invisible chainsaw
vibrates the air
A distant truck booms
These are signs
of people beginning
to rebuild the world
They start every morning
in the lot you can’t see
through the deep woods
that will never die
no matter how often
they are assaulted
and the new house
will replace
the one that
was taken down
and driven away in pieces.
Stan Sanvel Rubin poems have appeared in Agni, Georgia Review, Poetry Northwest and others, as well as China, Canada, Belgium and Ireland. Four full-length collections include There. Here. (Lost Horse Press) and Hidden Sequel (Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize). He lives on the north Olympic Peninsula of Washington.