Found: one marble

speckled, chipped
dotted with fingerprints of earth
lingers from the capsule it left

tiny shiny orb
in white, as white
as bindweed lurking
below a board in the barn

tiny shiny orb will
remain as white as
bindweed lurking below a
board in the barn, unlike
the exposed little vine

for white it was when
born for games and play
and white it was when
lost some sunny afternoon
some warm summer day

white it was last Tuesday
unearthed and removed
for lily bulbs or larkspur seed

white it is on top the desk
exclaiming what once was lost
now is found and sound