dust

at once, the rug is pulled out
and the dust settles
in piles -
hundreds of piles
ugly
dirty
piles
filled with dog hair and pieces of pasta
sweater fuzz
potting soil
shoe leather
dead leaves
and you want to dust it off
make it clean
somehow
again
or for the first time really,
but you don’t know where
you put the broom
or why the dust
seems more familiar
than a broomed floor ever would.
and so, you place the rug
over the dust
with its ornate design
tassels
loomed art for trampling
and your forget
for a minute
about how dirty the floor
has become.