suntannedapples: March 2022

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Seek not the toys which the child forgot. Published on March 29 2021

Seek not the toys which the child forgot.

The paper boat, if you unravel the folds,
still bears the date of the newspaper
in the crumpled corner of the edge.
This was the one which the child saved
from the foolishness
of letting it into the water.
It stands still on the bookshelf among the books,
crisp, dry, intact from the impact of time.