Found

 

 

     

                                                            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.

 

 

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