Home, by Tiffany Babb

Joseph Cornell’s basement studio, 3708 Utopia Parkway, Flushing, New York, 1964.

home

our house is a different kind of museum;

the collection encompassing 
what we chose to not throw away.

to your right, chipped mugs, 
note the dark lines threading 
through tea-stained ceramic.
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over here, see yellowed receipts, 
secured by a binder clip, 
and dangling from a key rack 
that houses no keys.

to your left, photographs, 
stacked in plastic tubs 
and hidden in creaking cupboards,
out of view.

Tiffany Babb

Tiffany Babb: "I am currently working towards my Masters Degree in American Studies at Columbia University. My work has been published in (parenthetical), Poetry Quarterly, Third Wednesday, and Fickle Muses."

Planet Set, by Joseph Cornell (USA), 1950.