Language of left-overs.
Language of bits & pieces.
Language of surprise (both pleasant and otherwise).
Language of question.
Language of too much.
Language of too little.
Language of the ripe.
Language of the over-ripe.
Some refrigerators are covered with magnetic poetry. Some poems are vehicles for menus.
no the cold does not harm the sleeping figure
ReplyDeleterecalcitrant and adrift
for she dreams of other lands
far away and warmer times
holding onto equations cast
from porcelin shapes
the ancient ways invade her sleep
behold, they say, the invitation
all matter dissolves in such a night
and she finds no answer matters, ever