About His Person

Five pounds fifty in change, exactly,
a library card on its date of expiry.

A postcard stamped,
unwritten, but franked,

a pocket size diary slashed with a pencil
from March twenty-fourth to the first of April.

A brace of keys for a mortise lock,
an analogue watch, self-winding, stopped.

A final demand
in his own hand,

a rolled up note of explanation
planted there like a spray carnation

but beheaded, in his fist.
A shopping list.

A givaway photgraph stashed in his wallet,
a kepsake banked in the heart of a locket.
no gold or silver,
but crowning one finger

a ring of white unweathered skin.
That was everything.

STRUCTURE:
> two lines - couplets
> half-rhyme - some of the two lines rhyme but generally it half rhymed (so the letter at the end of the lines are the same and they rhyme, but the rhyme in which the vowel sounds are not identical). This emphasises that we'll never know the mans half of the story.
> poet's message - eventhough we judged the man and went through his possessions, we still don't know anything about the real him. So, the poet is trying to say that you should never a person's actions, as their might be a motive behind them.