Sarah St Vincent Welch #113 Poem for KonMari 1

KonMari,

of The Life Changing

Art of Tidying,

all things bring me joy

in the spark of memory

old objects, their possibility,

ember and ash shadows

dark inanimate selves,

I ken, a story in every thing

what will you do with me,

KonMari?

my inspiration includes detritus,

the lost, forgotten and incomplete;

maybe my spirit is a gleaner of

another time, sentimental

about bacteria (its artful patterns)

shit (holy fertile remnant of life)

trash (repurposed reincarnating)

my ownership pattern

requires me, to write a tome,

thanking each object I throw

away, a formal letter, an epic

poem, dreaming over

what they all can mean

the skip, the bin, the trailer

filled with rustling sparks

wildfire of joys, raucous

stories, a library of decay

broken sorrow and mistakes

and hopes

all about to go

KonMari is Marie Kondo, the author of the bestselling and beloved The Life Changing Art of Tidying