brass buttons
(like other tokens by good stories)

I think Peter Rabbit
as well as
Bilbo Baggins had them
as
I think both beings
lost their own

one set to a fenced farmer
while
the other
to the great door
of a goblin
lair

brass buttons
then
might be a trinket and
a trophy

in addition to staid usefulness
to fasten

but the brightness of small things
to have
to lose
by farmers and by goblins
and other
taller foes in the world

and shall
new
gilded circles be given
or
otherwise arranged
so that vests and coats might be
fastened
against the cold and rain
or other depredations caused
by
great and closed cropper fences
or
Orc doors

as also shining things for
pleasures
be
restored

maybe to the reader
to match with likened
tokens
treasures
too

and
hey
even with their
losses
the rabbit and the hobbit
respectively
escaped from
their foes

c l couch


(Peter, whose jacket is classically depicted with bright buttons, actually loses the whole jacket plus his shoes in escaping from McGregor; Bilbo loses his brass buttons squeezing through the back door of the goblins’ mountain)

photo by Tyler Lastovich on Unsplash 
(pretend the door is green, which, in fact, it is)