A-Frame House

?-Frame House A 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 22 ...