What comes
After all?
So much
stacked
unbeknownst
we carry on
Or perhaps
Was it
Grace?
And then-
How much a
handbasket
Will hold
over so many
seasons,
weather worn
by hand.
Painting by Winslow Homer 'Girl Carrying a Basket' c. 1882 in National Gallery of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.