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