Xanadu

with coffee cups and silver spoons
he builds a cozy castle
globes and record players
old stoves and new pictures
rag rugs and flag rugs
in disparate pieces
makes a whole
makes a home
weathered and tethered
to the world
with memories made
and yet to be
this Xanadu peopled
with a family
an assemblage
seemingly random
but as carefully collected
as the furnishings
greater than
the sum
of all
their parts