james wright ripoff poem after "la espiritu de la colmena" (for class)

a child touches keys of an empty typewriter.
the vacant rocking chair still moves
before an angry flowerpot
just shattered.

from outside, a dog's bark
signals an intruder's dismissal.
the door creeps open and
hedges enshrouding the house
take its shape.

children play tricks against each other
during spring's first pledge;
in the backyard the youngest, Ana,
burns sticks after dark.

her mother whistles from
across the damp yard.
sound is wedged
between saplings and the woodpile
full of moths.