Proven Objects
At the flea market the blocks of clay we bought instead of the latest toys carved our imaginations to a polish in our hands
In second hand clothes, we discovered proven objects in boxes softening to felt with shiny knick knacks mounting a gleam of second life
We had a mirror shaped by clamorous blade for my vanity drawers with tongue-in-groove joints like fingers interlinked
How the joinery could craft the mind, knit a sensory net when fingers traced the scalloped edge
Memories are a twice-lived mirror cut from a generation that only knows real under the lens of the hands
Jessica Lee McMillan ©
Published in Blank Spaces Magazine, December 2021