Yellowed Tupperware lids
from the 1960s
Pressure cookers, copper-
bottomed cook pots, fryer
baskets, rusted sieves
A half dozen egg plates,
two dozen Pyrex dishes
(who needs so many?)
Corningware teapot,
blue cornflower
Hearts of Palm long
past expiration
Table top meat grinder,
clamps heavier than this day
A set of teeth smirking
in a mason jar
Six decades of dust mounded
into corners like ant hills
-Marianne Worthington
Evocative list with a great ending. These lists are hard to write; I’ve tried.
“clamps heavier than this day”…beautiful and, well, genius
Yes. This is really well done!