30 Day Poetry Challenge: Day 7: GARAGE
Day 7: Garage Taken from the poem Barbecuing , in Swimming with Fish and other Animals, poems by Patrick Dixon We hide things in garages entombed them dirty shrines to days past we stuff these memories in ripped cardboard boxes useful things, once useful stacked in corners cover them with tarps always amazed by what we have collected the sheer quantity counting life in items and inches Dust settles, spiders make homes sometimes if something needs taking care of we root around, find ourselves distracted by broken wagons and deflated balls make promises that this spring we will use it all but we don't In the dark garage of my mind the ghosts have been whispering I go there infreqently unsure of what is molding what needs fixing what needs to be thrown away But it's getting cramped, and spring birds remind me it's time for spring cleaning and garage sal...