Homemade Whelping Box

I got a terrarium

with attached warming light

and this marvelous

label maker,

& a blue-plastic-

bowling lady

on the kitchen table

dwarfed by a lemon

in the darkening house.

Farewell torments,

I will take

your bagged leaves.

I will pick up your laundry

and make with it a fence

in the new backdrop

we can hike back and forth.

I got a worm farm and

this alphabet puzzle mat

and some items just for staging,

like a pillow that props up your back—

A husband. Two chairs

in front of morning and

this virtually-blue forest.

I’m looking for a snow coat,

no bells or whistles.

Me and my family

will come pick your apples.