The sock tray

 

folding your socks
to insert into a plastic tray
a sock-organizer
I purchased
an item
you will never use

 

it is partly compulsion
a distaste for disorder
the same urge that leads me
to alphabetize
your fiction

 

it is partly a pledge
a hope
a desire

 

that I will be here
folding your socks

 

when you return
from Zurich
and after

 

*****

 

7/2/2002