Shortly after Timmy and I started dating, he told me that his dream was to build his own house. Now, that dream is happening!
We are on a shoestring budget. We are building it from scratch by ourselves. The only part of the process we are subbing out is the block (the foundation walls, hubs did the footer himself). Anyway, the house and the move is going to be completely life-changing and traumatic for me. I’m one of those that gets attached to place easily. But, this is what Timmy and I have been working towards for the last five or six years. We always knew we wanted to live in the country, and now we will.
As a poet, I am bursting. I want to write about so much of it all at once. The construction of this house is riddled in metaphor, from “bringing it out of the ground” to talking about hip roofs and roof lines. He’s building us. He’s building me. Anyway, that’s how my brain works, and once I can get my head around some of these images, there will be poetry!!!!
Which, brings me to my next announcement!
My first full-length poetry collection, BANGS, will be out this fall with Big Table Publishing. I’ll be touring a little bit, lining up some readings for that book, so check back in a while for that info.
In the meantime, here are some pictures of the building process!
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