I am wondering if the choppy, telegrammatic lines are meant to simulate 'Chinese English' (for lack of a better term) that we see on tv or even on the street. I reading your poem and it give funny feel. Like English not my first language... imported just like porcelain bowl. Make it hard to read, is that what you do?

Kidding aside, after realising it wasn't bad grammar or usage (as compared against your other works) I began wondering. The last 5 lines are beautiful and flow from the tongue quite elegantly.

This is so much a favourite, that I actually remember it, Victor. I can almost recite your poem now as if it were mine. ;-)

~A

Initially, I was kind of in agreement with cryptic, until I stopped reading the comments, went back and read your poem again, this time aloud.
I found an intense feeling of zen as I spoke this, that quality of divinity and mystery of the present within the ordinary and mundane. And aloud, it really does sound like a some ordinary object talking about its birth and journey, not just because of the word choices you make, but through the cadence and rhythym.
With the style you've used, the voice becomes sparse, matter-of-fact yet rich and unique.
And the last lines give it a soul.

Simple, deep, and very good, I bookmarked this one.