Photo by L.Joy Burke
Found
One black leather cell-phone holder
1 blue grocery bag with a buck
fifty in change inside
2 bicycles - 1 by an elm tree in the woods
1 abandoned by the trash fort,
1 pair of pink prescription spectacles
left on the parking lot of the market,
1 owner of a pair of lost pink specs.
1 twenty dollar bill in a yard
of an unknown neighbor,
2 illegal green cardboard
turtle firework fountains,
1 palm sized red heart
connected by a white button
to a ragged rectangle of blue felt.
1 empty brown nylon backpack
I put it back, 1 Junior ROTC
female’s cover also returned,
1 two inch tall plastic red Elmo,
1 two inch long black saw toothed knife,
2 fist-sized white, stuffed bears -
the first on the sidewalk on the way
to a kin’s funeral – the second
shortly after a car ran over the first.
1 large black rubber flashlight.
1 ball peen hammer perched
on the carburetor of my teal Escort,
1 magnetic pointer resting on a
ledge under the hood of
my champagne Legacy,
1 live white Persian kitten
dangling from under the engine
of a white Cadillac Seville,
paused at a red light in the
midst of a rush filled intersection.
4 florescent green tennis balls,
2 smudged autographed baseballs,
1 clear round super ball, it
bounced back into oblivion,
1 catcher’s mitt - I left it
2 red practice jerseys, also left behind,
1 new black Under-Armour cap,
1000 pieces of broken glass.
1 blue suede pouch,
1 polished black stone
14 fried chicken bones,
1 soft macramé necklace
1 tattered white, blue and red
“Made in China” American flag,
1 grey and white pet cat –
Blithe.
1 fledgling blue jay
stayed for 4 days
ate from my hand
remembered how to preen
how to forage, how
to perch and how to
squak "set me free."
Time.
July 16, 2008
Revised August 17, 2008
All Rights Reserved by Linda Joy Burke.
