Summer Houses

Poem by Janet McCann

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suddenly they lurk
as you turn the corners of dream roads
leading from the sea or to the bay
 
those rented summerhouses
great sentient hulks
that must remember us now in their own dreams
 
white clapboard or gray shingles
fifty years old even then
garages smelling of kerosene