Spring Cleaning

I find your boxers in the closet
it’s been almost a year and how
in a few corners
maybe in a drawer
sometimes on a shelf
your scent still lingers.

How about that one white sock
the cat is still obsessed with—
does that go to Goodwill too
or can it stay.

I ball it up and toss it
wondering if you still use
that one picture of us as a bookmark
if it reminds you of how you told me why
we each had to be lonely
how you told me it was just the season.

Farnoosh Seifoddini

Recipient of the Ann Fields Prize in poetry in 2003, Farnoosh Seifoddini received an MA in English from San Francisco State University and is currently working on the MFA. Ms. Seifoddini has poetry forthcoming in the Spring 2004 issue of the North American Review. Her work can also be found in Perspective, Scribbler, Iranian.com, KineticTravel.net, and My America, a Blue Barnhouse Books publication.