The House on Meridian Place

A Poem

Photo by Wynand van Poortvliet on Unsplash

When I go home in my dreams
it is always back to Meridian Place
to the house where
my heart first learned how to break
and the pain I hid for years
was kept locked inside
and all the little home improvement
projects my father started
were never finished
and the dog I’d had since childhood died