“Out of a rented existence” by Pam Gibbs

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While most girls drew ponies,
she pencil-scratched houses
on the back of first-grade homework

later with a wash of watercolor and ink
drew farm houses and sea cottages
on rough hand-made paper,

took to walking small-town streets at night
glimpsing family scenes in picture windows
placed hope in that which she did not hold,

finally found home in a mountain cabin, and
by the grace of a swing on the back porch,
she took root with the peach trees.

-Pam Gibbs

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