Yesterday alone I laid out on the carpet Books, kitchen things, With purpose or none Arranged sideways in a grid On the there, unmoored Out of and then considered it the whole picture, then everything individually Humming at the deadest pace imaginable One object, then another, and the next And I wondered what they meant If they meant still
notes, supplies, A you bought in the desert, Wildflowers'. Pictures vacations, parties, Kitschy gifts we from rest stops On that road out West Objects, itself And then
All of it out there In the room The living The hallway, and the basement, and the From that we called the office But never In the laid out there on the floor On the carpet, out of
And I sat for hours
I moved everything from the floor To the in the dining room Placed each carefully without reason Or at least without one I understood or could There, on the table, together and I was done I stepped back I realized I had made Keepsakes, pictures, objects all collected there
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And I thought of on highways or set by gravestones All the things you see but don't understand But still bring a remembered thing back Invoke someone's reality when together In place in that way out of context And I I had to take it down anybody else saw Tomorrow I plan to put them all Those In Side of the Attic All these things that and pull me through history To places I once was, places I have gone, Places I up going
Ticket from one thing or another A personalized coffee mug your name nor mine Phone cards and old A page an old calendar I bought once At a thrift and insisted on hanging That cycles of the moon Old boots of
Put in boxes
And I sat for hours In the room first Then in the room Moving around Picking things up and seeing where they me To what in history moment on our timeline Where we were, where I was, where I thought end up In this house or on the Driving somewhere near In the desert or anywhere
And I put them in