Instructions

[billy]

Per your instructions, we switched titles to the car,
blouses stripped from closet hangers for Goodwill,

fridge and freezer emptied
with every other condo shelf. I'd have used along to start the line

Where are the instructions for packing someone good line, it has a feeling of wtf. helplessness.
else's boxes once she has left? 'she has' feels to formal, would she's act better to bring the reader in

Plates in plastic wrapping mingle with lladrós, i'd suggest bubble wrap for the image and Lladro, you could say Lladro figurines
Spanish for porcelain dancers paid to watch too much info.

from behind thin panes of glass, now without a job.
Unless we take it upon ourselves feels weak

to adopt their waltzes on our table top,
the perpetual billows of skirts, i like this stanza but not the above transition which feels as i said, weak.

their stage will be cardboard would 'now' work better than 'will be'
felt through the darkness of a closed lid ,

sealed off with tape and labels. would 'sealed with tape and labled' work better?
'This side up' and 'Fragile'.

i got a feeling of tying up loose ends, for me it was a toss up between a death of a parent (maybe) or a divorce. i think you could add to the poem by pushing in a certain direction. as usual the style is yours there's def a good poem in there.

great to see you putting it out there again

thanks for the read.