‘Keep’, a new poem by Niall Campbell

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What lasts as well as this illustration of the ark
kept over since childhood? The closed cabin,

that dark indoors, huge and somehow private,
like all homes of love. The shake of the storm

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asking, what difference between saved and preserved,
the crates of birds, the snug-penned animals,

and Noah at his table at his rest,
my mother blanching jars

as the brambles of August 1997 are boiled
into velvetness, forever themselves,

so summer could be poured, checked, and made airtight
with a lid, stacked and ordered on a shelf.

The scent reaching us outside at the fence,
all of us watching on impressed

as my father dips the paintbrush into varnish,
laying on the ambering thick, like this.