The global lost and found

1. Things forgotten (facts, mostly, and some misplaced objects)
2. filed in an anonymous jewelry box
3. in the form of written documents
4. each oblivion on a different sheet
5. Upon (a chance) discovery of the box’s secret chamber
6. one reads it, lying on the belly, feet circling the sky,
7. and perchance giggles to discover where
8. shoes, medallions, sweaters, grandfather’s hats were really lost;
9. some of these places impossible
10. (tree branches, lockers, rental cars, bottom of the sea)
11. all vaguely familiar, their scents almost known
12. these objects never reclaimed:
13. this is a home where objects have names and souls, are fiercely loved,
14. allowed to breathe,
15. and are talked to in times of grief,
16. yet nothing was fetched from the lost and found
17. (which takes shape of the most mysterious of all mysterious places
18. with drawers and shelves full of fake teeth and Virgin Mary pendants)
19. When objects are abandoned,
20. when their time has come,
21. they are left with no apology,
22. then mourned fiercely face-down
23. This is not without reason
24. but to free the air of attachments,
25. without even a counsel between the left hand and the right