So Much Depended

upon
the notebook

always
in my pocket

with scribbles
and snippets

yesterday
first in the washing machine

then confetti blowing
out the dryer

vent

*Adapted from a Facebook post by the poet Marc Janssen, 12/21/2021.

David A. Goodrum is a writer and photographer living in Corvallis, Oregon. His poems are forthcoming or have been published in Spillway, Star 82 Review, The Write Launch, The Closed Eye Open, Fireweed: Poetry of Oregon, The Louisville Review, and other journals. Additional work (both poetry and photography) can be viewed at www.davidgoodrum.com.