Maintaining The Illusion

Out of the corner of my eye

It looks like a bracelet

Onyx

With sterling silver flowers and wiggles and

A sterling silver border

A cool and funky piece of jewelry

Shoved in my little odds and ends container

Along with random recipes

Empty index cards

The “solutions disk” for our new camera

A ruler

 And a book about the presidents written for children

Everytime I see it I wonder why it’s there and

Try to remember

What it really looks like

Until I do

Today it took about ten seconds and

I didn’t bother picking it up

Since I had nothing to cut and

Because

I kind of want to preserve the illusion for next time