The roof held. Through last year's storms it held      good.
Others' didn't. Tiles were displaced, some fell; must have leaked too.
This one was sound though: sound enough, I thought.

Wasps wouldn't nest in unsound eaves.
It would need to be dry for them. They were nesting when we
First summered here and we had to **** them.

Sometimes I can still hear their buzz in the dry air.