Tag: unpacking metaphor

“Unpacking” began as a meditation on domestic disorder and the rituals of aging, but quickly unfolded into a layered memory of childhood scatter and paternal absence. I wanted to explore how objects—laundry, drawers, pirate chests, suitcases—carry emotional weight across decades. The poem resists sentimentality and instead leans into the tactile: folding, spreading, shedding. It’s a…