Yard Sale
Oh, but it is incalculable
— this side yard full of her things
laid out on folding tables
ranged along a chain link fence.
Her Tupperware cake saver
takes precedence over egg timers
hand mixers, Pyrex, 4-H ribbons,
and forty-seven souvenir shot glasses,
one from almost every State.
The cake saver’s ridged base
(slip-proof in a swerving car)
holds fast a translucent milky dome
with crossover plastic handles
yellowed now after how many years
transporting her prize devil’s food
to summer camp at Raccoon Lake.
Fay Hart
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