Home Energy Makeover Semi-finalist: Susy A

Thanks so much to everyone who participated in the EnergySmart Home Energy Makeover contest!  Over the next few weeks we will share the stories of all our semi-finalists.  Enjoy!

The Hot Zone, by Susy A 

We rarely go down there,

to this hot zone.

Wars have been won

on the crawl space walls.

Spiders casting spectacular webs.

It’s a breeding ground

or so we’ve been told

but we don’t like swarms of anything

and there are, EnergySmart says,

swarms of everything.

Last night I dreamed of

an army building below

our bed. Bugs pooling on

the foundation in masses

unimaginable. The greatest

nightmare of all is that we have

fostered this perfect ecosystem,

this crawl space with a climate

exquisitely warm and wet

for the centipedes, spiders

potato bugs to nestle in

for the long hall, fighting

and feeding on each other,

laying their eggs. We are

too afraid to venture down

to change the filter, wrap the joints.

We wait. They breed. And to think

of what lies above.

Save us.

Posted by Shawn Lindabury