Things Lost Somewhere in This House

Things Missing Somewhere in This House My birth bertificate… A box of needed, new bank checks… Both of our wedding rings… My Waterman fountain pen… After 4 decades, at least 3 doz. of Jim’s odd socks & 2 doz. Of mine… 2 Roku remotes, 1 somewhere upstairs & 1 here downstairs… (Worrying) The hand-written letters I received from Thornton Wilder & Samuel Beckett… My nonchalance about tornadoes especially after last month when Jim’s sis-ilaw’s home was destroyed in Laurel County… (Most tragically) Half of our hearts gone — after our 2 sons (brothers whom we adopted when they were aged 2 & 4)…And were so completely adored by us for 14 years, but who were Then, On one horrid day, driven off by their birth-mother (in her suddenly arrived car)…Back to SC where they were born…And since when they’ve not contacted us… 20 years of our youthful daydreams… (Woefully) The bottom half of my right leg, which somehow returned here with me from the hospital after the surgeon took it 17 months ago, & which in painful phantom screams, keeps pleading to be re-joined… (Especially & Thankfully lost) any distance that once exiisted between me and Jesus…