underneath here, there must be a wheat penny,
a reassurance from the roosevelt administration
things will be all right and people, here and to come,
will have had children with truck-spring backs,
joints strong as steel,
and minds like wells filled with sweet, cool water
so far, rows of shark-tooth carpet strips
with foot molding jaws bite before they come up,
and again later in ratcheted, skeleton piles
thrown onto the refuse out back—
tarantulas in the sun like bad memories
decades of skin dust, carpet glue, dog hair,
fingernails, a light bulb, a capsule–
in a lipless hole, on a dusty bed of insulation
a hospital bracelet: “Ronnell James Harlan, 4/10/98,
newborn, mother, Katrisha Lorene”
strings of weave trail across the floor
to rolls at one end of the room—
old times, old faces lifted,
new times to form the room into a thing
useful and needful of people who make it
before the boss comes, I look into dog-stain corners,
under the roof incline, behind the knotty pine,
into the attic at either side, where a wheat penny
might have rolled after slipping from a pocket,
dropping from a dresser, falling from a child’s hand
new pad, new carpet, new ideas;
a room that smells of the modern age
and under this carpet or the next,
a wartime, red-painted zinc lincoln,
say 1943, when times were tough
and people bought things with coupons
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