How to Play House

 

To prepare for the visitor, you must move

 

the objects off
and shove the shoes
beneath the bed.

 

Where there is a hollow, put the paper.
Where there is a mother, put a father.

 

Put a third chair at the table,
empty but saved.

 

Where there was never a question,
seat a child. Where there is
no one to love,

 

put instructions.

 

From Forth A Raven by Christina Davis. Copyright © 2006 by Christina Davis. Reprinted by permission of Alice James Books.