Old shoes, books, clothes,
toys, snaps, smells, news-
papers, compact disks,
long-playing records,
letters in the upstairs
closet (mind)–
New poem, this one,
new (mind) synapsing
from eating fresh
herring for breakfast
casting new thoughts
over old contents
spewn on the
beach, renewed
by morning tide.
Indran Amirthanayagam, June 11, 2017