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Directions to my living quarters on this island

My friends say
I live in a shack
I don’t take offence,
it suits me.

It sits
on the side
of a small hill,
with pines
and bedrock
outcrops behind.

My porch opens
to the southwestern sky,
over the field
through the alders
the lake
sometimes glitters.

And before closing the door
a slight bow