Garage Sale

Coming home, carrying

A pair of chipped china

Swans, a scuffed

Jigsaw puzzle, and a

Perfectly good coat

That very nearly fits,

We could not quite

Forget one elderly

Cigar box, holding a

Few brown iron

Bolts and some other

Mournful metal bits.

Valerie Worth

Autumn Geese

One long

Ragged

Thread

Unravels

The whole

World.

Valerie Worth

I found both of these beauties in a book called All the Small Poems and Fourteen More. Here is a quote from the poet that really just says so much, in my opinion.

“Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling: The mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at it or splashing through it. Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry – because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry.” (Another Jar of Tiny Stars, Cullinan and Wooten)