Tag: beetle
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Beetle
This morning I had walked down Spring Street and there was this beetle in front of me on the sidewalk, and when I swerved to miss it, I walked into a stop sign beside a man taking out his trash. “Are you alright? Boy, that must have hurt,” he said. “Oh yeah, I was just […]
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Toenails
You don’t want to clip them too short, these ten little heads. They remind me of candy corn, or mini portabella mushroom slices you can sauté with onions, garlic and butter, the white nail parts reminiscent of cooked quinoa husks, dry, sea-salted clam shells, or the beetle-winged sheaths on the inside of popcorn kernels that’ve […]
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