Yesterday I laid everything out on the carpet Books, kitchen things, With specific or none them sideways in a grid On the floor there, Out of and then considered it First the picture, then everything individually along at the deadest pace imaginable One object, then another, and the next And I wondered what meant there If they meant anything
notes, supplies, A book you in the desert, Wildflowers'. Pictures vacations, parties, Kitschy we bought from rest stops On that road out West Objects, Everything And then
All of it out there In the room The living The hallway, and the basement, and the From that room we the office But never In the Everything laid out on the floor On the carpet, out of
And I sat for hours
Today I moved everything from the To the table in the dining Placed thing carefully without reason Or at least without one I understood or could There, on the table, together and when I was I stepped I realized what I had made Keepsakes, pictures, Ordinary objects all there
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And I of ones on highways or set by gravestones All the you see there but don't understand But still bring a remembered thing vividly Invoke someone's when there together In that place in 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 Attic All these things push and pull me through history To places I was, places I might have gone, Places I up going
Ticket stubs one thing or another A personalized coffee mug neither your nor mine cards and old phones A page an old calendar I bought once At a thrift store and on hanging That cycles of the moon Old of mine
Put in boxes
And I sat there for In the room first in the dining room Moving things Picking things up and seeing they took me To what place in moment on our timeline Where we were, where I was, I thought we'd end up In house or on the highway Driving near Christmas In the desert or else
And I put them in