Instructions

[billy]

V. 2(thanks to billy, cider, todd)

instructions

Per your request, we bagged the blouses,
everything else collected on the landing
in the shadow of a banister learned by hand--
bookshelves folded into broken wings, i like this line.works on a few levels. i like the image most of all.
plates in plastic mingled with Lladrós,

Spanish for porcelain dancers is 'spanish for' needed?
spoiled behind panes of glass.
Until we take it upon ourselves
to adopt their waltzes on our table top,
the perpetual billows of their skirts,

their stage waits in cardboard
sealed off with tape and labels,
'This side up' and 'Fragile'
the only instructions for packing
someone else's boxes once she's left.

i think you did a good edit. the new add-ins work well in the 1st stanza.