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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SHE DECIDES ON THE LETTER C FOR WASHCLOTH, by LINDEN ONTJES
First Line: She is sorting their lives / into boxes, taping
Subject(s): Moving & Movers
First Line: She is sorting their lives / into boxes, taping
Subject(s): Moving & Movers
She is sorting their lives
into boxes, taping
labels on lids. Gigantic
dun-colored corrugated
this-end-up boxes,
industrial staples
like horse bites.
She is puzzled how
some things won't fit
into any category
or there's no room in box
B4 where it belongs.
She has never hated
any thing as much as
that lave lamp that torn
shower curtain with koi
patterns swimming through rain.
What possessed her to possess it and now
to pack it for transport?
Her move is defeated
by their determined love.
Nothing has been sorted
out, nor is there any
less of it.
Copyright © Linden Ontjes
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