Museum Piece 

Everything on display
carefully displayed
in cases, under glass,
relics of lives
that once were, and now
are barely remembered,

artifacts
of loss.

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This was a two page poem, whittled and whittled away to this. Much like life, if we do it right.

The picture is from the Pember Library and Museum, in nearly Granville, NY. You can click on it for a larger version.

Tom