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.

Mama's chicken soup

My mom brings me chicken soup from DeCicco's
Dave brings me Mama's chicken soup from Whole Foods.

Dave bakes a chicken and asks 

should we save the innards to make chicken soup?

Let's not bother, I say

and toss them in the trash.

THE TENS

it just says massager on the box
but he says it's called
TENS
as though that is common knowledge
and i am a silly girl for not calling it that
also when i use it my shoulders scrunch up
and i feel it in my teeth
but it still doesn't feel hard enough
and he only gave it to me so he wouldn't have to give me so many massages
or for nights like these when he's off skiing with the boys
and there's nothing better to do
but lie on my stomach being electrically stimulated by my new
TENS

But wait there's more

On nights when I can’t sleep

I take a tiny piece of myself

and turn it inside out.

I peer closely at what

lays within there, just right out of view.

And when my pinky finger’s

cuticle reveals my past life’s journey,

I close my eyes and watch those

memories play out along their lines.

I traveled to China,

to Japan, to islands unnamed

in shallow seas.

I wore a hat and scarf

at all times and drank

tequila from a tray.

I raced myself on the beaches

and swam inward, with the current.

I turned to tell you that I love you

but was by then alone of course.