I found a lost billet-doux
among my unfiled notes
& photos
[creased into a
later state of life –
a dead
cert –
sure] –
I recognised
a fingernail scrawl –
all in
scratched picks
[mis-hits
of spelt out words –
each
meaning now blurred] –
I
returned it to that outvie
of last-heards & seens –
I
did not want to read it or
keep it –
do not connect –
file it –
all best left furled