The Ladder of Abstraction by Jonathan Duckwortht
December 01, 2022
Originally Printed in Edition 5.1
Poem by Jonathan Duckworth
The Ladder of Abstraction
As I pack books into cardboard
& shirts into trash bags
& my favorite mug (bubble-wrapped)
into a crockpot
I keep thinking how Pandora
managed to squeeze hope
back into her box
but all I can fit into my car
are things.