the center of a bargain

these old shirt pins stayed put.

did their job,

year after year,

cornered over corners.

closets’ older notions –

a someone that no one tried on

today, my hands and knees

bargain with gaps in the floorboards

pretty, please return to the rest of me

all six or eight neat little reasons

to ease future pieces

of a mind. pieces lying flat and static,

mend future present moment, to

every last loved sense memory, your

all the front doors were open

easy breezeway

summer storm murmurs

and eyes all pliant lightening