The porch supports
riddled in rain and eaten with the sun
are undergoing that
replacement keener than sheer naked boards
fragrant and young
beneath the plane,
that deep displacement cleaner than white paint.
Even the cupola,
a place for viewing and for hiding once,
will be shut off,
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