the wooden cabinets with metal handles in the art room.

they house each glass plate handed to you on your wedding day.
you wore satin shoes.
heavy vail.
their wooden, dark and consistent.
metal handles.
grasped by familiar hands.
searching for your morning coffee mug.
you need to wake up.
he already left for work.
satin shoes on the floor of the double door closet inside the room you share with him.
metal handles.
on the door to that mutual chamber.
it's dark and consistent
like those wooden cabinets.
glass plates resting in them.
the ones that were handed to you.
and him.