Just the wooden skeletal outline of something not yet there.

IN THE FRAMEWORK OF AN EMPTY HOUSE BY HELEN CAREY 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 12

With no walls no moldings no outlines

of the parts of a home, no reason to separate

and label rooms and parts and pieces of things

and isolate them all from each other, not yet.

No railings on the stairs leading up to

the second floor, nothing to hold on to

while we walked up w…