“Compendium of Lost Objects” by Nicole Cooley
This poem is easy to read and comprehend and gives you a taste of reality from Mother Nature. The writer does a good job at sucking you in and keeping you guessing till the end. The Speaker you figure out is a victim of a hurricane that is morning over lost possessions and areas that are now just memories. In the first four lines you don’t know that anything is wrong. The author writes, “Not the butterfly wing, the semiprecious stones, the shard of mirror, not the cabinet of curiosities built with secret drawers to reveal and conceal its contents,” (lines 1-4). It’s not until the author uses the word “but” that breaks up the poem as in “but the batture, the rope swing, the rusted barge sunk at the water’s edge” It is not till then that you realize something bad has happened, you just don’t quite know what. Reading farther you learn where and which hurricane has caused the disaster from the line that states, “but a cot at the Superdome sunk in a dumpster” (14). This line tells you that the speaker is talking about hurricane Katrina hitting the gulf coast. I believe the speaker is saying that nothing is safe from Mother Nature and can be taken in a blink of an eye. This poem reached out at me because I was living in the Florida Keys when Katrina came over my house as a category 1 hurricane. Luckily I didn’t have to write a poem about my losses.
http://huehueteotl.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/rates-of-anxiety-mood-disorders-high-in-areas-affected-by-hurricane-katrina/
Work Cited
Cooley, Nicole. “Compendium of Lost Objects”. Academy of Lost Poets. 2010. 15 June, 2010.Web.
http://www.poets.org/printmedia.php/prmmediaid/21526
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