MEMORABILIA

 

OPENING DERELICT BOXES

when life

as lived

was short

and horizons 

were far

one puts away memories

and

memorabilia

to laugh

to relive

not so far away

just  a few steps 

and a tiptoe reach

sad ones already discarded

decades gone by

boxes 

and contents

get unboxed

one hot day

in Summer of 

eighty first year

newspaper headlined faces 

in crowds of protester

entitled names among

members

attendees

speakers

mediators

other holders

of names

now 

almost

nameless

prescriptions 

from 1945 and 46 

somehow 

insinuated

their not so legible

presence 

into the box

of 

vagrant 

remembrances

without cause to remember

all very dusty

tattered

puerile

good for a fine sneeze

ahmet cafer celebiler

July 24, 2025