The Bread Box

It sits on the pantry shelf where it's always been The old blue bread box made of tin with faded white letters B R E A D stencil on for some reason of it I am fond It no longer stores loafs or buns It now holds things forgotten A dish towel whose pattern was pretty and fun A rubber glove in case we found the other one Some rubber bands and bread ties too and don't forget that bottle of old wood glue The timer that doesn't time a baby spoon I think was mine A candlestick and yellow lighter A recipe for holiday apple cider Old refrigerator magnets that don't stick An half empty jar of Vicks That old squirt gun that always leaked A Tootsie Roll we forever keep Why we keep the bread box I don't know But I am glad it's there if just to show some things other think are useless and old are the treasured memories of us they hold