July 2023
James Seegert
jrs376@mail.com
Bio Note: I am a poet, storyteller, photographer and performer. As a member of the Performance Poets Association (PPA) I have read extensively throughout the NYC metro area, being featured numerous times at PPA events as well as at the Phoenix Poetry Series in Greenwich Village. I am currently a member of Calling All Poets in the Hudson valley and a frequent reader at Lit-Lit in Beacon, NY. My work has been published in PPA Literary Reviews, the Tamarind Review and has aired on WRHU (Hofstra University) radio.

Lost and Found

Found two phone numbers
In the back of a drawer.
One may have been your sister’s,
The other your Mom’s?
An old tarnished set of keys,
Not valid anymore.
And a faded greeting card…
To me—from you.

What should I do?

Bury everything?
Return it back to the earth?
Enabling these relics 
To bond with you? 
Or light a fire,
A small ritualistic pyre?
Is any of this
Important now?

[I thought out loud.]

Moved it all to the trash.
That’s when I heard from you.
Been waiting for you to find this, Silly.
I’m wondering, how are you?

I’m fine…I lied. 

So, I rescued everything 
From certain oblivion.
Sealed all in an envelope.
Placed it gently back 
Into my drawer—
Way, way, back…back forever…
Forever in— 
My Lost and Found.
©2023 James Seegert
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