Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Jaysus

Good god core of an onion
snowballing down a hill,
getting more and more
of a -
halfway down and enough
layers there's a wonderful
green glow
you don't notice the patina.
Onion:
down the hill
and more layers
it's even worse than we
imagined,
you take an onion core
bereft of mind
already on the wrong fork
cosseted in reverse
growing stronger
glowing green -
patina.
And then the complete onion,
sloughing off paper skin brown
gungeing in the crisper tray
un-re-pro-duced
the bubble burst,
chips are down.

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