Laurel Mercantile Co.
Laurel Mercantile Company
Taste-test
the odds and ends
of the hometowns
of small-town America
Collected and curated,
mythologized with nostalgia,
at the corner mercantile,
placed haphazard into bins:
mailboxes and yard signs,
dead candles, garden tools,
nicknacks and soda cans
You can wander the aisles
but these aisles
never end
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Your descriptions are so effective. Perfect title, Perfect ending. Love this poem.
spools of kite string-
sympathy cards and
candy bars
i like the immediate sense of place
in these endless aisles.
anthropologically sound!
especially love “but these aisles/ never end”
I really enjoyed this, especially that surprising ending