Yesterday alone I everything out on the carpet Books, kitchen things, specific purpose or none Arranged them sideways in a On the floor there, Out of and then considered it First the whole picture, then everything Humming at the deadest pace imaginable One object, another, and then the next And I wondered what they meant If meant anything 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 Everything laid out there on the On the carpet, out of
And I sat there for
Today I everything from the floor To the in the dining room Placed thing carefully without reason Or at least without one I understood or could There, on the table, together and when I was I back I realized what I had made Keepsakes, pictures, objects all collected there
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And I thought of ones on or set by gravestones All the things you see but don't understand But still bring a thing back vividly Invoke someone's reality when there 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 push and pull me through history To places I once was, places I might gone, Places I up going
Ticket stubs from one or another A personalized coffee mug neither name nor mine Phone and old phones A from an old calendar I bought once At a thrift store and insisted on That cycles of the moon Old of mine
Put them in
And I sat for hours In the living room Then in the room Moving things Picking up and seeing where they took me To place in history What on our timeline Where we were, where I was, I thought we'd end up In this house or on the Driving somewhere Christmas In the desert or else
And I put in boxes