Yesterday alone I laid out on the carpet Books, kitchen things, With purpose or none them sideways in a grid On the there, unmoored Out of context and considered it First the picture, then everything individually Humming along at the deadest imaginable One object, another, and then the next And I wondered what they there If they anything still
notes, supplies, A book you in the desert, Wildflowers'. Pictures vacations, parties, Kitschy gifts we bought rest stops On that road out West Objects, itself And memory
All of it out there In the dining The living The hallway, and the basement, and the From room we called the office But never In the Everything out there on the floor On the carpet, out of
And I sat for hours
I moved everything from the floor To the table in the dining Placed each thing without reason Or at least without one I or could describe There, on the table, and when I was done I stepped back I what I had made 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 don't But still bring a remembered thing vividly Invoke someone's reality when there In that in that way out of context And I knew I had to take it Before anybody saw I plan to put them all somewhere Those In Side of the Attic All things that 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 mug neither your name nor mine Phone cards and old A from 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 for hours In the living room Then in the room Moving things things up and seeing where they took me To what place in moment on our timeline Where we were, I was, where I thought we'd end up In this house or on the somewhere near Christmas In the desert or anywhere
And I put in boxes