Marcus Closen is a poet from Winnipeg (in Canada) where he studies English literature and film studies at the University of Manitoba. Follow him on twitter @marcusmicropoem.
Yellowed Jar
By Marcus Closen
You showed me a shelf of wonders
in your study.
Jars you had cleaned and
filled with interesting things
a pig kidney
a sparrow brain
I laughed–what else can one do
in the face of an eerie collection–
but you, I liked.
My heart rests now on that shelf.
You took it from me
and placed it in a jar
glass tinted yellow
like the goldenrod that suffocated me
the day you stole my heart.
Well done! So much in so few words. Thank you for sharing this poem.
Sad but lovely.