“Handpicked Heirlooms”

I take keepsakes

Retouch and arrange tarnished

Precious memorabilia

A little silver bell

Turned brown well before I learned

A sterling finish doesn’t stay if it sits

Unused

A Goodacre Dollar

‘Presentation’ piece

Sakakawea and Jean Baptiste

Reverse, obverse dated

Wash-worn faces faded like varnished brass

Engraved in gold

A fleuron shining on

A broach

Saved for teatime all June’s life

A thimble which fits my pinky finger

Collected tokens tucked in the sky

Blue-velvet drawstring bag

Now steeping in the bright

Black-spotted kettle

I’ll never use to pour or brew

On account of how the metal smells

Still of Marlboro Reds

Even filled to the brim with white

Sage potpourri ~

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