A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Saturday, November 04, 2017

"the departed"

Like living in a purgatory of someone else's
cast-off sins and artifacts, roomsful
of Jacob-Marley chains and weird shrines
to all the tasks they have ever undone
- the sorts of things a respectable wight
would hang around and haunt something over.
Ditched.

What kind of afterlife
crowds with its detritus
into the space
where you're trying to live?

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