Tag: Toenails

• 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 […]

  Chris Russell

  September 20, 2021

  Free Verse Poetry

  beetle, butter, candy corn, clam sheels, cloud, Definition poems, Food poems, garlic, mushroom, onions, oyster, pearls, popcorn, quinoa, Toenails