Write a list poem
one that is a list
of the stuff you have
ordinary stuff,
that book of Donne poems
that old 1928 Prayerbook
a bag of pistachios
four bibles four translations
a book explaining all that,
the Burial Office book
and Joan of Arcadia DVD’s.
It’s all a messy jumble
nothing in place
papers strewn all over
notes long forgotten
fragments of my life
like the lists I create
pieces lost
pieces found
words said
words not said
words lost on the wind.
A desk of potsherds
a Humpty-Dumpty
all shattered yet whole
piecing together my life.
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