please take

If I die and someone is around to care,

Please take my little things:

A moon-shaped incense burner that I made from clay, a wooden goose from a flea market, a miniature perfume that I smell occasionally and use even less occasionally.


Take one or two, or as many as you like, and store them in your coat pocket,

fiddle memories into them like I have done, or put them on a shelf and let the dust collect just like all the old ladies did before us.


Forget about them and one day find them again with a rush,

just like that feeling you get when you’re on a walk and the warmth of a sunbeam finds your face perfectly,

and you realise how tangible it is to exist.