drawer · keys, none of which fits anything any more
brass, mostly. one in silver. they were the keys to doors. the doors are still doors and are still where they were, in other houses, but the locks were changed by the people who now live behind them.
you have not thrown any of them out. they are now a category of object rather than a category of use.
field-note: one is heavier than the others. the silver. you do not know what it once opened.
a key · lost · doors · a trunk · forget