The Bathroom Project

The Bathroom Project

when will it be done, I wonder
as I wander through my living room
which resembles the two rooms upstairs
and the downstairs bathroom, since everything
from those rooms resides in my living room
a dissembled desk, a bucket of sponges,
a stack of towels, a medicine cabinet
and boxes overflowing with the miscellaneous
in all our lives, the half used soap, the half
empty bottle of shampoo, a broken chair.
when will it be done, I wonder, as I
step over the broken stair, a beautiful honey color
of newly refinished pine boards, once upstairs
admiring the new blue-grey paint in the back
room, which will be my studio and that the
front room wears its golden coat again,
but the bathroom is not done yet, half painted,
the shower is not tiled, the fixtures yet to be
selected, much less installed, no toilet, no sink,
no lighting, just a beautiful oak floor,
when will it be done, I wonder,
I hope soon.