My Brother’s Place

Overgrown bookshelves
Retaken by feral tomes
Decades of National Geographic
Crown the canopy in gold
Buried Circus Cookie tin
Holds faces of ancient inhabitants
A house party in ‘92
A postcard from Maui
Evidence suggests all the pictures are old
Who prints photos anymore?
And these goddam creaky stairs
When did they find their song?
In this house of a thousand books
And about eighteen bikes

-T. Weeks