Yesterday alone I laid out on the carpet Books, kitchen things, specific purpose or none Arranged them in a grid On the floor there, Out of and then considered it First the whole picture, everything individually Humming along at the deadest imaginable One object, then another, and then the And I wondered what they meant If they meant anything
notes, supplies, A you bought in the desert, Wildflowers'. Pictures vacations, parties, Kitschy gifts we bought from rest On road trip out West Objects, itself And then
All of it out there In the room The room The hallway, and the basement, and the From room we called the office But used In the Everything out there on the floor On the carpet, out of
And I sat there for
Today I moved everything the floor To the table in the dining Placed thing carefully without reason Or at least one I understood or could describe There, on the table, together and when I was I stepped back I realized I had made Keepsakes, pictures, Ordinary objects all collected
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And I thought of on highways or set by gravestones All the you see there but don't understand But still bring a thing back vividly Invoke someone's when there together In that place in that way out of And I knew I had to it down Before else saw Tomorrow I to put them all somewhere Those In of the road Attic All these things that push and pull me history To places I once was, I might have gone, Places I up going
Ticket stubs from one or another A personalized coffee mug neither name nor mine cards and old phones A page from an old I bought once At a thrift and insisted on hanging That cycles of the print Old of mine
Put in boxes
And I sat there for In the living first in the dining room Moving things things up and seeing where they took me To what in history What on our timeline we were, where I was, where I thought we'd end up In this or on the highway somewhere near Christmas In the desert or anywhere
And I put in boxes