Removing Old Wallpaper

Scarify with that

toothy tool,

scoring patterns

like signatures.

Lacerate the paper print,

circular perforations amidst

Noah's ark and nursery pinks:

cartoon ram's horns severed,

the two by two now

ewe by ewe.

Dust flies:

a genocide of dry glue

orphaning the wall behind.

Wallpaper's peeling,

a limpid scroll

rolling up

down to the floor.