unused · upper floor · north side
the nursery
no child has been here in some time.
the mobile turns half a turn when something passes in the hall,
which nothing does.
a small ribbon on the rail; a small
thimble by the window. you do not know who
kept them. you do not know who is keeping them now.
memory here has the quality of distant
weather. forgetting here is its own
kind of care.