Something About Old Things

Something about old things

grabs my attention.

They seem to hold a story

that shiny, new things lack.

With an old house, for example,

I wonder who built it and whether 

their life there was happy

and -- if it's abandoned --

why it's sitting there unloved.

You might remember that I like to photograph

old things

rusty things

discarded things.

Maybe that fascination develops as we age.