Yesterday alone I laid everything out on the carpet 仅昨天我把所有的东西在地毯上

Books, kitchen things, objects with specific purpose or none 书籍，厨房的东西，用特定的目的或无对象

Arranged them sideways in a grid on the floor there unmoored 在地板上有unmoored网格安排他们横盘

Out of context and then considered it 断章取义，然后认为这是

First the whole picture, then everything individually 首先整个画面，那么一切都单独

Humming along at the deadest pace imaginable 可以想象在deadest步伐沿着哼着

One object then another and then the next 一个对象然后又再下

And I wondered what they meant there 我想知道他们的意思有

If they meant anything still 如果他们仍然意味着什么

   

Found notes 发现笔记

Camping supplies 野营用品

A book you bought in the desert 你在沙漠里买了一本书

“Identifying Wildflowers” “识别野花”

Pictures from vacations 从度假照片

From parties 从各方

Kitschy gifts we bought from rest stops 我们在休息站买了俗气的礼物

On that road trip out West 在那个客场之旅了西

Objects 对象

Everything itself 一切工作

And then memory 然后记忆

   

All of it laid out there 所有这一切都奠定了有

From the dining room 从饭厅

The living room 客厅

The hallway and the basement and the kitchen 走廊，地下室，厨房

From that room we called the office 从我们的房间叫到了办公室

But never used 但从未使用

Even the bathroom 即使是浴室

Everything laid out there on the floor on the carpet out of context 一切都布置有在地板上的地毯上断章取义

   

And I sat there for hours 我坐在那里几个小时

   

Today I moved everything from the floor to the table in the dining room 今天，我在餐厅搬到了从地面到表

Placed each thing carefully without reason or at least without one I understood or could describe 放置在每个东西仔细无故或至少没有一个我的理解或可以描述

There on the table together and when I was done and stepped back I realized what I had made 还有桌子上一起时，我做了，并且向后退了几步，我意识到我做了

Keepsakes Pictures Letters Ordinary objects all collected there 纪念品照片普通信件的所有对象那里收集

   

A memorial 一份纪念品

   

And I thought of ones on highways or set by gravestones 我想到了那些在公路上或墓碑设置

All the things you see there but don’t understand but still bring a remembered thing back vividly 你看到的有，但不明白，但仍是东西带来记得的事情生动地回

Invoke someone’s reality when there together in that place in that way out of context 引用某人的现实时，有一起在那个地方那样断章取义

And I knew I had to take it down before anybody else saw 我知道我必须把它记下来任何人见过的

Tomorrow I plan to put them all somewhere 明天我打算把他们都地方

Those things 那些事

In boxes 在箱

Side of the road 路边

Attic maybe 也许阁楼

All these things that push and pull me through history 所有这些事情，推动并通过历史拉我

To places I once was, places I might’ve gone, places I ended up going 到地方我曾经是，我可能已经走了的地方，地方我最终会

   

Postcards 明信片

Ticket stubs from one thing or another 从一件事或另一个票根

A personalized coffee mug neither your name nor mine 个性化的咖啡杯没有你的名字也不是我的

Phone cards and old phones 电话卡和旧手机

A page from an old calendar I bought once at a thrift store and insisted on hanging 从旧日历的页面我买了一次，在旧货店和坚持挂

That cycles of the moon print 那月亮打印周期

Photos 图片

Old boots of mine 我的旧靴子

   

Put them in boxes 把它们放在箱子

   

And I sat there for hours 我坐在那里几个小时

In the living room first 在客厅先

Then in the dining room 然后在饭厅

Moving things around 移动周围的事物

Picking things up and seeing where they took me 捡东西，看到他们带我

To what place in history 到什么地方历史

What moment on our timeline 什么时刻我们的时间轴上

Where we were, where I was, where I thought we’d end up 我们在那里，我在那里，在那里我想我们会最终

In this house or on the highway 在这所房子里，或在高速公路上

Driving somewhere near Christmas 开车不久的圣诞节的地方

In the desert or anywhere else 在沙漠中或其他地方

   

And I put them in boxes 我把它们放在箱子