I Keep My Names

#I Keep My Names

 I keep my names in a little locked box  

 With drawers and tags and manilla file cards.  

 Little metal keys fit little grey locks  

 And little trim slots fit little bent hearts.  

   

 I keep my keys in a big sturdy desk   

 With four sturdy Hepplewhite iron-tip feet  

 And a big sturdy top, on which I rest  

 The big sturdy brick made of his deceit.  

   

 I keep my desk in an old dusty room  

 With dust on the sills under dusty panes  

 And dust swirls around in the dusty gloom  

 But the dust never settles in the rain,  

 In the rain, and the dust never settles   

 On the brick, on the table, with the key,  

 In the drawer, for the locks, on the boxes  

 With the bent little hearts trimly arranged.

 

 The dust never settles on my names.  

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#Poetry Primers

• Alliteration

• Blank Verse

• Catachresis

• Diacope

• Enjambment & End-stops

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