The Found Object

Yesterday Eye found a shell

considered then laid away

upon the sand, discarded

until today as Eye walked along

deciding that should Eye find it

for a second time

Eye would claim it —

Lo & Behold

it was there

in all its curly-cue —

no one else had picked it up

no wave had come that high

so Eye retrieved it

as a man nearby

hefted an old lobster trap

he said was garbage —

Eye called it “Flotsam”

and he laughed