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Decades ago now, playhouse for her children
too much window glass for their play
by the fence it stands, forlorn, lost;
neighbors' horses seem amused





This image was probably taken about 2010, when the playhouse had been mostly unused for almost two decades. The shade tree, a Douglas fir, is already looking a little stressed, perhaps partly because the playhouse was built so near it when it was a sapling.

     I move my table to read sutras by moonlight
     I pick wildflowers to fill my altar vase
     -- Shiwu (Stonehouse, tr. Red Pine)