Painting by: Jim White. 2021

A wish

Washes ashore

This treasure hidden

In trunks

Beneath a coaster

Origin story in a palace of wisdom

Nowhere near

A human

Appears

Like ghost

In hospital corridor

Blinking traffic light amnesia

Leads one to

Oblivion determinations

Traced in an outline

Of skull and

Jawbone

Possibly

A paragraph

In the wishy washy

History books.

Legendary.