Tag: butter
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Vampire Bat
My student grabs his reading book off the desk and begins folding and creasing the title page in on itself as if to say he’s shutting down and refusing to talk about it, when it’s expected he follows along with the rest of his class. I can’t tell you how many people, children and adults […]
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Fox
My fox was sipping on her usual cappuccino with one squirt of banana syrup. With her little mitten-like hand she swept her red hair back and it fell down the length of her torso. She saw me looking at her and smiled at me. “How’s it going?” I said. She yipped something in a language […]
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Syringe
The syringe seems to scream out of its needled Proboscis as it approaches your arm, so terrified children are of this little mosquito some will gnash and scratch and destroy the windows to avoid being in the same room with one. If you listen closely, you can always hear one buzzing in the air around […]
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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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Belt
Anxiety has been a constant algebra I’ve had to practice solving while out in the variable of public life since I realized I was an introvert’s poet. Just this morning while standing in line at the local Co-op I imagined a work colleague by the melons, and her looking at me as though I’d walked […]
the real subject is always you 