Aunt Sophie's Clothes
with Aunt Sophie's clothes
Aunt Sophie left some old dark clothes
and a small battered tin
an old silver locket and chain
grey and tarnished
hiding within
wrapped in a shred of faded blue cloth
inside of a tattered cotton bag
along with a few rings and some small pearl earrings
with screw-on backs wrapped up in rags
and in the locket
a faded photograph
of a silver haired man
a seafarer by his clothes
a hardened face
looking through the decades
staring at me
each deeply hewed line a tale of
long voyages and storms
and many days spent out to sea
we knew nothing of him
for she never said a word
she lived and died alone
in a shambling old house
set back off the road
a heavy load
for one old woman to bear
what do we do with Aunt Sophie's clothes
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