Clutter By Jonathan Butcher

A clarity of reversed cluttering, 

those damaged ornaments,

layers of dust nestled into cracks,

each speck a decade older 

than the last; a lesson ingrained into each

one, the shelves dip like sedentary

snakes, drunk under the weight 

of this relentless hoarding.

Certain ones remain more polished

and hold value over sheer nostalgia.

The room now empties, the walls

like torn canvasses useless 

in the task of imprinting ideas, 

those objects of clutter, thrown

from each window, their influence

and drama, no longer an ash 

like smudge. 

Jonathan Butcher has had poems appear in various print and online publications including, The Morning Star, Mad Swirl, Drunk Monkeys, The Abyss, Cajun Mutt Press and others. His fourth chapbook, 'Turpentine' was published by Alien Buddha Press. 

He is also the editor of online poetry journal Fixator Press.