Trail of Breadcrumbs


CRUST and crumbs of worm-riddled bread litter the floor under the table.

SHALL it always come to this? Ill-gained grains ground into meals of emptiness?

WILL You slake your thirst in vain from rusty, leaking faucets with broken pipes?

DWELL upon the hill where fresh rolls, dripping with honey and butter, are served daily.

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A Reckoning

ADEPT in ordering our affairs, or not, yet comes the time:
PLEAD with our maker, if we can name him, for healing, for more days.
COMET appears and carves its warning path. A table of precepts,
DECALog’s worth, arraigns, heralds judgment, forces pleas for grace.

Icky IKEA

UNIT-Y in the IKEA range is causing me
GLOOM, a gloom looming, a slippery slope, both
TROPEs for a panic attack, the polar opposite of a
LEMUR’s calm in his natural Madagascan state.

Misreading

UNITY of sign and sense, he reads on, in settling
GLOOM, treatise on skeletal anatomy.
TROPE of scholar spending his sight on mental quest-
LEMUR?! Who has a lemur in their leg?