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In the Attic

Erin D. Kincannon

Attics like minds are over-stuffed.

     Little things mean too much:

  desperate saves from childhood,

     shirts here, jersey there,

    broken love charms,

  smooth river rocks.

Glass chandelier jewels which

   parents trash

at midnight so no child cries.

“Just like your grandmother,”

mutters Dad.

True, I’ve bits of her too,

     found on basement cliffs:
   a glass dolly, cat’s eye marbles,

     a brooch, a kiss;

   pieces from around my world:

            a dream, a wish,

   packed in old Christmas boxes,

      dusty and useless

    without a narrator

  to descend

with tattered stories.

Erin D. Kincannon is a native Oklahoman who went west until she hit California where she now lives.  She manages a small college bookstore while tutoring ESL students, writing, and exploring the local sights.