One from today and one from yesterday... 

After a Rainy Week

Beneath thick yellow moss

hides the roof of the rental house

pale brown and dripping water

into clogged gutters. The man

who mows the lawn, I used

to think he was the owner

but he’s the man from next door.

He mows around the rental house

to keep the dandelions down.

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Clean

I sweep then scrub

the kitchen floor, its pattern

resembling marble, off-white

with thin veins resembling

pine needles or mud

or coffee grounds ground down

by my shoe. I mop

and spare my knees the pain

of kneeling, spare the floor

any indignity of inspection

of its imitation ritz.