TO THE HOUSEKEY BY NANCY KAY PETERSON

If I found you,
         never knowing
         what you were,

I wouldn’t know how much
         you were nothing
         without a lock

and wouldn’t know
         that before you
         everything
         was open.

Nancy Kay Peterson’s poetry is in Bluebird Word, Dash Literary Journal, Earth’s Daughters, Last Stanza,, RavensPerch, Spank the Carp, Steam Ticket, and Tipton Poetry Journal. She co-published Main Channel Voices: A Dam Fine Literary Magazine (2004-2009). She authored two chapbooks, Belated Remembrance (2010) and Selling the Family (2021). See www.nancykaypeterson.com.