(For National Poetry Month I write a daily stream-of-conscious poem. Spontaneous single edit – it will be ugly! Poem #27.)

for sale sign
flapping in the wind
click-clacking time
and memories

here
love bloomed
conception
birthed
joyful laughter
tears poured out
skinned knees
broken bicycles
birthday wishes
blown aloft
lost in swirling leaves
and melted snowmen
carrots stolen
by uninvited
rabbits

how many cardboard boxes
are needed to hold a lifetime?