Distraction Begets Absence

COLLECTIBLES

        in no particular order:

words
interesting quotes
sea pebbles
potentially usable research
so-and-so's artwork
fountain pens
that type music
important family/friends' keepsakes
odd shaped bottles
books
driftwood
kind rejection slips
artful figurines
old untold stories
amusing images
particular past journal scribbles
impressionable whatevers

DISCARDABLES

(the pen pauses) -

poems that itemize,
like this one,
to fill the blank space,
to remind maybe there's still a There
there.

RESUSCITATIONALS

Find the There that's still there.