Yesterday alone I laid everything out on the Books, things, objects specific purpose or none Arranged sideways in a grid On the floor there, Out of context and then it First the whole picture, then everything along at the deadest pace imaginable One object, then another, and then the And I wondered they meant there If they meant still
notes, supplies, A book you in the desert, Wildflowers'. Pictures vacations, parties, Kitschy gifts we bought from stops On that trip out West Objects, Everything And then
All of it laid out In the room The room The hallway, and the basement, and the From that room we called the But used In the laid out there on the floor On the carpet, out of
And I sat there for
Today I everything from the floor To the table in the room Placed each thing carefully reason Or at least without one I understood or could There, on the table, together and when I was I stepped back I realized what I had Keepsakes, pictures, Ordinary all collected there
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And I of ones on highways or set by gravestones All the things you see there but understand But still bring a thing back vividly Invoke someone's reality there together In that in that way out of context And I I had to take it down Before anybody saw I plan to put them all somewhere Those In Side of the maybe All these things that push and me through history To places I once was, I might have gone, I ended up going
Ticket stubs one thing or another A personalized coffee mug neither your nor mine Phone and old phones A page from an old calendar I once At a thrift and insisted on hanging That cycles of the moon Old of mine
Put in boxes
And I sat for hours In the living first in the dining room Moving around Picking things up and seeing where they me To what place in What moment on our Where we were, I was, where I thought we'd end up In this or on the highway somewhere near Christmas In the desert or anywhere
And I put them in