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A-Frame House

A-Frame House Michael McFee Appalachian Heritage, Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2005, p. 22 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2005.0094 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/434624/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:32 GMT from JHU Libraries ?-Frame House ski chalet flung up by mistake one July week on our dull street, it was incredibly cool, tall roof pitched so steep no boy could climb up far though all of us kept trying: our Juliets adored the balcony from which they'd Romeo at dusk to the unwalled living room below— what luck for us kids to have this mod wedge of a house to sharpen our dull lives though fathers warned that so many shingles would soon chip and the yard would never drain, and mothers worried that white trash would move in with their beat-up cars and dogs and kids, and of course our folks were right though no one said so the winter night the A-frame house caught fire and we stood together watching, warmed by its blazing fulcrum about to collapse and spill the dark. —Michael McFee http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

A-Frame House

McFee, Michael
Appalachian Review , Volume 33 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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Michael McFee Appalachian Heritage, Volume 33, Number 2, Spring 2005, p. 22 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2005.0094 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/434624/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:32 GMT from JHU Libraries ?-Frame House ski chalet flung up by mistake one July week on our dull street, it was incredibly cool, tall roof pitched so steep no boy could climb up far though all of us kept trying: our Juliets adored the balcony from which they'd Romeo at dusk to the unwalled living room below— what luck for us kids to have this mod wedge of a house to sharpen our dull lives though fathers warned that so many shingles would soon chip and the yard would never drain, and mothers worried that white trash would move in with their beat-up cars and dogs and kids, and of course our folks were right though no one said so the winter night the A-frame house caught fire and we stood together watching, warmed by its blazing fulcrum about to collapse and spill the dark. —Michael McFee

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Published: Jan 8, 2014

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