Thursday, June 14, 2012


There were, on the roof, the expected things:
cigarette lighters
glass






cast off from the adjacent apartments

but the longer we stood on the gravel the stranger were the items that appeared 




Necklaces and perfume bottles,
decayed

scissors from a shipwreck or an excavation
not one but two sets of nail clippers
a chewed on pencil










the metal reddened, the wood and plastic whitened, the forms distorted
but even the faded colors of the lost toys bright against the tarry gravel.







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