Sunday, March 4, 2012

charmed objects

Charmed objects
You treasure for many a year--
Like the Italian 20-lira coin
I found on rainy backstreets
In Hundred Mile, Canada one summer
Carried such a long time in my wallet
Until I showed it one night to Jan
At the Forbestown Bar
Who said she’d trade me
A jukebox dance for it--
Gone.


(1999)

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