Overall I found this to be excellent, beautifully paced and observed, but I do confess to a very slight disappointment in the ending. Before reading Cathy's comment I really didn't get the nostalgic value of the watch on the wrist, and that's the detail the poem closes on, but even after I "got" it, I still sort of wished the poem had gone a bit further and given us that last-minute volta that Shaun mentions.
I also spent a nano-second being confused when the word "list" came up, since the poem itself is a list and that was the first list I thought of.
Yet all my minor objections tend to dissipate after a couple more readings, once I have learned what not to expect and to accept the poem on its own terms, terms which offer a great deal to admire.
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