Altar Knotted to Alterations Found

Arranged within the walls
of an old wooden box:
seashell & bearskull,
shattered piece of handblown glass
wedged in the socket, swirled.
Chinese lion standing pedastled
on a soapstone seal, uncarved.
Above, a buckle and an ancient clasp
both bronze beside a silver bowl.
The word Odin written over
a boat and the sea on both sides.
A conjunction of icons and amulets
pleasing to the eye.  A calculus of space
rendered now into sound.