The corner of cardboard
torn from a carton
and safely tucked
in a back pocket
with your scribbled line
I regret to say
has been rinsed washed
spun and tumbled and
though warm and fluffed
is quite blank.
I have left it
folded with the laundry.
Perhaps its shape
will remind you
of your words.
:: Susan Eisenberg, Pioneering: Poems from the Construction Site (1998)
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