All the boxes in the attic

1. All the chests ajar
2. No duct tape on cardboard
3. all accessible why won't you open them?
4. what spiders have woven is soft and wiggly
5. you should not be afraid: won't you open them?
6. webs protect what I threw in boxes long ago
7. making sure never to put solid objects and lawyers
8. on the same pile with starry-eyed
9. They all rotted inside
10. Some boxes had been filled earlier
11. left to me by all the mothers I could have had
12. some never opened
13. life unexamined
14. unable to say
15. that I have met a boxer, a private detective, a hungry mother,
16. someone trying madly to get into the book of records
17. by doing something preposterous and sad
18. not merely to say I met them
19. but to hear thoughts of those more adept at
20. screaming
21. bleeding
22. shadowboxing
23. I painted a box in whimsical colors,
24. hallucinogenic flowers and mad love
25. I try to keep it empty
26. try every day
27. it has plenty of air and sometimes some light
28. it is livable
29. stay out