And later just to await into their...

And later just to await into their papers,
half-read in their lifetime, letters--
if there were a place to hold fast them
and they hadn't been chewed up by way of mice in the attic

or soiled at the marten
which no single in kind ever saw but everyone
suspected of subletting--or unruffled
to enter them by the agency of hand into hard memory

since that might be the way to