cherries & edamame

cherries & edamame
can be challenging to eat socially,
depending on the crowd

locusts

the furnace sounds like locusts
no two ways about it.

first the Clopek fire-up
then the churning
at last, the locusts
like the sound of school approaching

2

playing second fiddle
backup harmony
never singing out the melodic truth
never singing
only speaking

[i love olfactory nostalgia]

i love olfactory nostalgia
even when i can’t place it

the smell is one thing
pleasant or not
but the pungent memory of an experience

is another thing all together

starved

“i don’t deserve you”
he wrote
and she wondered if he really thought she was fantastic

or
if he finally admitted
that he could stand to do much better
for himself

she hoped for more