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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

the Mantelpiece

its funny how a mantelpiece
can tell you so much more
than an autobiography.

a delicate china plate
carefully crafted
by coarse hands
in a sweatshop in Shanghai.

a rosewood ukulele
strings curled, round elderly posture
hunched, soulfully strumming,
in Hawaii (summer holidays 1982.)

a miniature toy car
with peeling paint
smooth hands of youth on the wheel
steering towards that transformative accident.

soldier poised,
musket ready,
aggressive and ready to fire straight
into the hearts of loved ones.

an enormous handmade
personal plaque
for the most loving daddy,
happy birthday.

and a timepiece
etched insignias
roman numerals
dust,
and black intricacies.

the hands have long stopped ticking
(since 1994)
but every piece
worth a memoir
is right there
on that mantelpiece.

Comments: Gah I don't really like this one. It's a BEAUTIFUL object of inspiration to write about and I was just so tired and uninspired I totally didn't do it justice. ): Oh well. A toast to improvement!

11:33 PM

Regular kid.
Irregular fetish.

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
said Thomas Alva Edison
And to me, Poetry is
one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent getting lost in the moment

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