A List of Objects

in the chest:

leaves of grass and johnny the homicidal maniac

chartreuse pumps

leopard print tights folded in the left

shoe toe.

A deck of marked playing cards,

the three of clubs and all

four aces are somewhere

in a different chest. Maybe.

Under the Kenya apron there

a coin with my father’s voice voltaic

(che cosa dice il serpente?)

...serpente mordente.

I found a pair of pearl earrings I thought I had lost

and six weeks in Cremona that I had

Lost.

A spider with three eyes, dictated dreams, fingerprints,

I found the tree and the jasmine air.

The folded steel: a leg-crushing dress.

a photograph of insult forgiveness.

A killing cosmos.