Which one was the first?
Shall we look it up,
Let code mind find it?
No. This one’s dusty,
Unprepossessing,
With a leaf pattern
In green relief. There.
Tuck it under you,
Make yourself at home.
A folded blanket,
A folded cloak,
Some kind of cloth wad
Must be ancestral
To throw pillows.
Who invented them
As decoration?
Chinese? Scythians?
Egyptians? Romans?
Something for the eye
That was for the spine,
Repurposed pillows
Scattered on a couch
Just so. So many
Items lie around
Cultures like asides,
Almost inside jokes
Archeologists
Might puzzle over,
Although we suspect
No future research
Will be conducted
On most. Surely not
On dusty pillows.
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Throw Pillow
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