Sunday, December 27, 2020

Washing-Machine Archaeology - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

Washing-Machine Archaeology

 

History passes, and so do washing machines

Rattling and spinning to the end of their span

Their dutiful cleanings cleaned out at last

Whited sepulchers around silent drums

 

The householder as Howard Carter finds

Behind a dead machine “Yes, wonderful things!”

Clothes hangers, metastasized dust bunnies

Inexplicable stains that hiss and spit

 

And in a midden, he discovers with a shock -

Almost embalmed – that famous long-lost sock!

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