Bric-a-Brac
“The trouble with you, Robert, is that you write about—subjects.” “The trouble with you, Wallace, is that you write about—bric-a-brac.” —Meeting between Frost and Stevens After the storm,when the green clouds leave, retreating over moundsof shard-filled rubble,the desperate climb those hills looking for . . . what?Irreplaceable nothings:a yearbook with its falling-out bits of ribbon …