adapted from Memories Lost to a Whirlwind Alight on Facebook to Be Claimed
Grand daddy holds his favorite hunting dog
In a water stained photograph
Falling from the sky
200 miles from our stormy home
A high school diploma
Yellowed and curled
Marooned in faraway backyard
Homemade wedding ring quilt
Heavy with rainwater
Plucked from a ditch
Spent checks, bank statements
Financial lives floating through strange fingers
Scores of mildewing pictures,
Grinning family Polaroids,
Somber faces in black and white
daguerreotypes
Dirtied newspaper clippings
Unopened letters bearing outdated stamps
Sodden stuffed animals with ironic smiles
Sonogram warped at the edges
Cracking through the center
First image of a beating heart
Cradled by unknown hands
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