The Attic

Dusty trails across the floor
Boxes, round top trunk
flat top trunk
covered with junk.

Old lamps, shaded in brown
A wagon, with a wheel gone.
Ice tongs hang on rough wooded slats,
a picture frame
cracked
Cob web curtains,
a leaning coat rack.
Rusty rejects . . . .

copyright 1977 by Carol E. Smith