Day 13 - Garage Sale

We cut it finer and finer every day. Day 13 beings a prompt from Chris Jarmick's list of Napowrimo prompts. Specifically, prompt number 4: "List ten items you would buy at a garage sale, or an auction or your local thrift store. Be specific. Now write a poem that includes all of these items"

Auction Of Forgotten Things

Lot 27. A collection of your great-grandfathers writings from the trenches, yellowed and fragile. Leather cover still smells faintly of cordite and sulfur.

Lot 48. Remnants of a thousand, thousand shattered plates. Bulk item. Handle with care.

Lot 61. Brass carriage clock of good provenance. Ideal for use as a paperweight.

Lot 92. Parker pen with ink marked case. Blue bleeding across the silvered suede. Blue glinting agaisnt the gold clasp.

Lot 113. Rusting mountain bike. Red paint chipped by time. Tires flat. Underside of seat; a fine cosmos of arachnids.

Lot 145. The engagement ring you removed. Missing the gem - keep the Peridot for yourself.

Lot 166. Small wooden box of fine colouring felt-tip pens. Comes as set with five sheets of A3 paper and a child's imagination.

Lot 183. Chiffon skirt in maroon, still tagged. Still waiting to be uncertainly worn.

Lot 200. Commemorative plate for the silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth the Second - one corner chipped.

Lot 221. Metal cast toy train. Bloodstains across back corner still. Press the button on its flank to here a child's scream, lost in the cacophony.