Move On Day
At dumpster village
are there any for tall
ships
any for childhood giraffes,
glass globes, fragile wings?
any for the frame
of our broken last bed
or favors lost or
the ticket stub
collection,
the Chinese takeout
boxes, the
botched police report and other
misunderstandings, or
any for the prayers,
the attempts at faith,
the stubborn way we
landed?
Some tender items may go
to the second-hand bins:
the good used clothes,
the favored cups, the
wisdom ...
Some are worth re-visiting
like the humorous notes,
the
cake pans, the colored pencils, the
red clay, red clay, red clay.
Now we are
finished and ready
for fresh long time coffee,
another trek of emptying
to follow more than this,
to
follow the deep blue sky,
to
follow sand hill cranes
however high they go
and all their belongings
however high they go
we will go too.
