Poetry Room at IsleWrite.com: NEW EARTH HOUSE is a poem about about the frustrations of an unscrupulous builder who wouldn't fix the leaking roof of a brand new earth house, written by the poet Janet Cannon.

new earth house

leaking big sky tears
through the roof constantly
streaming inside into

several strategically placed
cups and glasses and
cans and jars and buckets

and bowls and pans and
whatever other vessels i have
to catch water when it rains

on the new earth house and
the builder's vacant promises
to stop his structured flaws

Janet Cannon