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Rated: E · Poetry · Contest Entry · #1995778
Prompt 10: Inside the... Everyone has one, and they're pretty much all the same.
Lurking within the shadows
of that bottomless crevice:
cookie crumbs and crayons;
a single sock, whose mate has given up
any hope of reunion;
a magic marker, dried out,
and its colorful cap only an inch away;
the shiny shoe from a Barbie doll
and a single stray striped straw;
with pilling and polished pennies.

A hand dips within,
fingertips combing through the junkyard,
until they clasp the missing remote
and pull it free.

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Theme: Inside the ... (any non-living thing). Tell me what happens inside those things.
Words to use: magic, junkyard.
Words to avoid: none.
Additional Parameters: None
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