To heat a sister House a burn
adjust the replica body
in the yesterday travel rain
no sister locks the door at the highest temperature
three hours still parked still comfortable to eat sugar by force
only because each house keeps a burn together
drinks the page An unseasoned tree
chosen to go to the sea
Copyright © 2017 by Ching-In Chen. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on November 1, 2017, by the Academy of American Poets.