CURIOSITY SHOP

Artifacts adumbrate ancient amenities

(All items backwardly anapestiferous.)

Brass-handled bureaus of burnished brown brilliance

Crystal carafes, a cello, a chafing dish

Delicate doilies in Damascene doubleness

Ermine-lined uniforms, elegant epaulets

Fine-feathered, filigreed, fragile French furniture

Gewgaws and gargoyles griMACing on gravy boats

Heavy-hooved horses and hunters in hall hangings

Ivory idols and imports from Ireland

Juxtaposed jewelry near jasper jade jardiniere

Kitchenware, kitsch, knickknackery, knobkerries

Lorgnettes, and lockets, and lithogravure.

Mantuan mandolins, monogrammed mustache cups

Napery nestled 'neath needlepoint neckerchiefs

Oyster tongs, Oscar Wilde’s opera omnia

Petit point printings of prim, prosy platitudes

Quilts quintessentially queenly in quality

Reams of rhymes roaring in rodomontade.

Scintillant scimitars, sconces, soap sculpturings

Teapots and trumpets, trivets, a tambourine

Upleaping unicorns in ultra-ubiquity

Volumes Victorian, violas, velocipedes

Whatnots for bricabrac, watchcases, wardrobe trunks

Xanthic wood xylophone bars tuned chromatically

Yarn yardage, youth portraits yellowed with age.

Zodiac symbols, detritus from falling star

(One fell on Zurich, the other hit Zanzibar.)

Objects bespeaking refined domesticity

Ranged in alliterate alphabeticity.