what happens here may not stay here
inside your walk-in closet you keep
a wooden bowl atop your dresser
filled past the brim with little things
little tidbit kinds of things that have little
to no value like bottlecaps and matchbooks
rubber bracelets and key chains
a deck of the tiniest of cards you’re
quite sure has played solitaire
sometimes you imagine a little spider
lives inside the tidbit of things
milling about mostly in the dark
but occasionally coming out on afternoons
to unwind atop the deck of cards
basking in the filtered light
leaking through diamond-shaped openings
that really aren’t here nor there
october two thousand sixteen
copyright j matthew waters
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I have a similar bowl and probably a similar insect! Lovely poem!
I imagine many of us do – thank you 😊
Those are some boring things you stuck in that little box. Other than that, I love this. 🙂
haha yes indeed – thank you friend
My mother has much more than a bowl… she has the closets filled with them.
Minimalism is not for everyone!
love the little trip the spider took!
Thanks!