Yesterday alone I laid out on the carpet Books, things, objects With specific or none Arranged them sideways in a On the floor there, Out of context and considered it the whole picture, then everything individually Humming at the deadest pace imaginable One object, then another, and then the And I wondered what meant there If meant anything still
notes, supplies, A you bought in the desert, Wildflowers'. Pictures vacations, parties, Kitschy gifts we from rest stops On road trip out West Objects, itself And memory
All of it laid out In the dining The living The hallway, and the basement, and the that room we called the office But used In the Everything laid out there on the On the carpet, out of
And I sat for hours
Today I moved from the floor To the in the dining room Placed each carefully without reason Or at least one I understood or could describe There, on the table, together and when I was I stepped I realized what I had made Keepsakes, pictures, objects all collected 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 a remembered thing back vividly Invoke someone's reality when together In that in that way out of context And I knew I had to take it anybody else saw Tomorrow I plan to put them all Those In of the road Attic All these things that push and me through history To places I was, places I might have gone, Places I ended up
Ticket stubs one thing or another A personalized coffee mug your name nor mine cards and old phones A from an old calendar I bought once At a thrift and insisted on hanging cycles of the moon print Old of mine
Put them in
And I sat there for In the living first Then in the room Moving around Picking up and seeing where they took me To what place in moment on our timeline Where we were, where I was, where I thought end up In house or on the highway Driving near Christmas In the or anywhere else
And I put in boxes