TENSION (Lombardo/Merchant) Frail hinges pivot On a case's door

Commemorative Souvenirs from places Containers change with occasion

Cellophane encased Displaying paper Certificate Credit years of

service A tool of central enterprises The early hope For permanence

The words the rings Consistency And Social security The miracles high

tragedy A thought mistaken for a memory Dress lengths assassinations

Fractured family ties and christenings Local posts will list your

friends In order of disappearance Lawn scattered tins feed birds The

portion baked For absent guests The mass edition icon God sent comfort

Your salvation But who grants absolution For sins that never were

committed Tension makes a tangle Of each thought becomes Inconvenience

Sound never penetrates The servile edges break and faint A thought

mistaken for a memory Clear the dust From smiles in boxes Pass the

patterned wall Recall their voices.