In My Trash: A List
By Heather Graham

Vacant calendar pages
Grocery-store-brand ballpoint pen: draft-depleted
Empty bottle of Coke Zero
Promising Credit card offers: ripped
Crumpled notebook paper
Nondescript hospital masks: sanitizer-stained
Wilted wedding boutonniere
Scribbled love notes from ex-lovers: ignored
Belated holiday candy wrappers
Markered protest signs: confrontation-crippled
Discarded stories of life and love and death
Novel beginnings and endings: quarantined