A catalogue of vanishing things

1. waves upon the stony strand
2. her lover's tears, all too soon
3. parallel lines in perspective drawn
4. the mist on the lake
5. the call of the loon
6. our heroine's innocence
7. the tigers in bengal
8. the bees in my garden
9. the leaves in the fall
10. academics who speak latin
11. modesty and candour
12. empty space on the bookshelf
13. the basilisk, the salamander
14. present mirth and present laughter
15. idle time and solitude
16. our dancing days, for better or worse
17. the starried sky
18. the weight of my purse
19. the strangeness of the world
20. the ice in my glass
21. my nearsighted view and my spectacles (again)
22. the time left to you
23. my memory of your past
24. the sun in the sky
25. the ink in my pen

I have become a lost name once more, and keep the company of other rare and dwindling things; a shadow, a pin.