No.16

The dresser

Is more than a dresser.

Its many-compartmented form

A wooden reproduction of my mind.

Too many things clutter the shelves and crowd the drawers.

The charity shop cake stand that keeps my jewellery safe.

That wonky lighthouse I made out of cardboard.

The Chairman Mao alarm clock I bought in Wutai Shan.

Books, postcards, photos, trinkets, music, lamps and strings of lights.

Each object escorted by a tale.

A little like Tracey Emin's Bed I suppose..
the subject matter a little different.

I store my very self within the central cubby hole

Just as I did my grandparent's dresser

More than twenty years ago.