The Museum of Small Things

Held in the palm of a mountainous hand

a tiny toy town of red roofs in snow

Akureyi, dwarfed by great giants of land,

holds a small treasure for those who would know,

collected by one man, life in small things:

door handles, bottle tops, nails and fish hooks,

needles and thimbles and keys and old rings,

objects discarded, which others forsook

he saw their value and shows them to share

that no thing is too small not to have worth

brief meditation on why we might care

for details of our little lives on earth:

each atom, each planet, life and death sings

we´re all in the museum of small things.