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The Move

By Elaine Heveron

Three weeks after the movers
loaded two households
into the mouth of the moving van,
and gangplanked it all straight through
the front door of our new home
an alarm clock surfaces

from a box of wash cloths--
time stopped on its face,
like a cat unexpectedly found
in a perfect basement hutch
still as a cinderblock
Hey! No one asked ME
if I wanted to move.

Picture hangers and nails,
carefully removed and saved,
separated from the weight of
framed artwork they once upheld.
The light is different here, they seem
to say. You can’t repeat the past.
Keep looking …, re-organize. Think.

Items we couldn’t pack till dawn on moving day disappear in the rush of departure,
hide out in unrelated genres of stuff,
amused by our attachment,
wait for re-discovery, re-birth.
Inanimate objects, my eye!
Elaine Heveron lives in Rochester, New York next to Highland Park, home of thousands of varieties of lilacs. She enjoys early morning walks before going to support a group of engineers and scientists in research at Xerox. She has self-published one book of poetry, which was strongly influenced by her love of music and the loves and blues in her life. She is working on another. eheveron@crt.xerox.com

Elaine's earlier poem at Ariga: The Trouble with Winter

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