Written for NAPWRIMO Day #7. (a list poem)
• A list of leaves and branches makes the height of a tree
• the list of a boat pictures a wave that never departs
• On the fridge, the shopping list: these moments of clarity held in margins and blank white space
• in my phone a list of photos is my eyeballs on parade
• list numbers
• list facts
• list questions
• butterflies listed in a drawer - lepidoptera layers
• a list of papers squarely in the newsagent’s basket
• a list of prayers reeling up to god
• behold the dog’s leg
a list of white fur
• a list of bricks suggest a wall
• a list of dirt
falls into a hole while all around
• lists of black
• and then our ears, skin and cartilage cords listed just so to list en
Out of the Cave 
I love the inventiveness of your ending.
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Agreed! And the sound play works so well with the idea of listening.
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I like the list of prayers ‘reeling up to God’ and the list of bricks ‘suggesting a wall’ —
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