at the things around you now--what an archaeologist would call your "material culture". That coffee mug will survive, but the tablecloth (and the table) won't. The bottle of nail varnish, your wedding ring, your hip replacement--these will endure. Think too about your most precious objects: the ones you would wish to take with you. If most of your possessions will be erased by time, is that unsettling--or is there a kind of solidarity, an equality of dispossession? Consider what will be left of you in purely physical terms and what a future archaeologist might make of it.
from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: Jo Bell's poetry workshop
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