Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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eight hundred pairs of army issue
cotton khaki undershorts.
And then there are the endless
collections of tools,
the river pump (and no river)
three compressors,
five jacks. A header
agisted down the road
for twenty years. He is
a hoarder of hardware.
For my mother it was
books and letters,
birds and paintings.
But she is gone.
And he He remembers the war years,
the best years of his life.
Three years ago I cleared out the
old house, learned about my forebears
through photographs, found another
path to myself. Much of it
excess baggage. Metal
recycled for a new life.