Filed Under Something
Filed Under Things That Were Wrapped Around Food
A drawer of packaging that outlived what it packaged: flour-bag labels, butcher paper, tea-tin fronts, coffee bags flattened and filed.
Filed Under Something
Filed Under Something
Filed Under Places I Only Stopped for Gas
An album of evidence from towns seen through a windshield and a pump: a receipt, a magnet, a keychain from a nowhere I never actually visited.
Filed Under Something
Filed Under Haircuts
An album of dated locks of hair, one envelope per cutting, the colour shifting page by page. The body's own material, labelled.
Filed Under Something
Filed Under Letters
Not the letters. The envelopes: postmarks, return addresses, weather-stained corners, a gift tag, the handling that got the message here.
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Filed Under Meals
The paper a lifetime of eating out leaves behind: placemats, napkins, receipts, a pie-case label, a chopstick sleeve, creased and stained in one folder.
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Filed Under Roads
The debris of moving through places: soft-folded maps, a shot glass, magnets, toll and ferry receipts, pressed pennies. Highway memory, filed.