Objet Trouvé

a poem that wonders about time and memories

Today’s post is entirely self-explanatory from within the poem itself. But I would like to make a brief note about its form. I’ve written this in blank verse, the classic, unrhymed, five-footed lines so commonly used in English poetry since the sixteenth century.

It’s believed to have originated in imitation of the unrhymed poetry of classical Rome, or…