When mom died
I found under your mattress
various crossword magazines.
a hundred dollar bill.
a Chinese horoscope book.
an x-ray of her chest.
a piece of the Asian continent
the bow of a whaling ship
the hallway of a house on 15th street.
fall
a glass of prawns with golf sauce
I found my father smoking a cigarette
my university degree
I found the ambulance that took a
empire to transfer her to another hospital.
I found the building of his social work.
eyelet face her in the head of the National Bank.
half nougat.
a bus station.
all the tiles she had stepped on.
a dromedary.
the hair from one of Hemingway's eyebrows.
the caves of the forest.
the boat on the lake.
a dictionary of antonyms and paronyms.
my adulthood hand carving a totem.