Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub - Open Link Night (posted by Bjorn)
in response to Merrill's - Poetics: Passions Stamped on Lifeless Things

For today’s prompt I would like you to write about a historical artifact. Since we’ve had Sarah’s recent ekphrastic prompt, I’m going to exclude paintings—other than what you might need to see an object or structure. You can write about something as small as a piece of jewelry, a spoon, or an urn,

You may write about any object—a family heirloom, a museum piece, a monument, or a palace. The choice is yours, but there must be some link to history and the past.


In an antique shop
I spotted a forest-green
painted ice box.  Hmmm,
would we be able
to remove that color,
and get down to
original wood?  Took
a chance.  Right move.
I have had this wooden
ice box for years,
always in a prominent
place.

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