extreme dangers

another version of extreme dangers:
the day encapsuled in the u-haul
parked across the street,
loaded with fine-grained metaphors
of someone else's fifty years.

but it is these contexts, only,
that crease the vision of my self
fading in the months and years:
sepia in the mirror, a photograph
from a box a stack of pages sit
amidst emphemera patience like a leopard
cursing the pardons it whimpers
biding its time