I reach into my pockets
and pull out fossils
collected

on field trips
Ordovician snails, brachiopods, and clams

I find rubber balls
Koosh balls
hot wheel cars

to keep my 3-yr old son
entertained

There's a checkbook, stamps
a funeral misselette
and business cards

from past jobs
and people I've met

Peppermint candies
empty wrappers, a comb
two pens, a pencil

note pad
with poems