bread in the air
(in coming light, Middle Creek Publishing 2022)
the greatest thing about dishes in the sink is that we have dishes and we have a
sink and that I get to wash them when they get crusty and I hate that but there was
food enough to be left behind and fungus enough in the air to make the dough rise
and that you ate it with butter just like a victorian orphan and we laughed and
then all played cards at the table and the greatest thing about the hole in the wall
is that it is there and my hand made it and that there was emotion enough to
propel it forward and that we are still here in this house and art sometimes covers
the hole and sometimes it doesn’t and one time you put your little shoe in the hole
never to be seen again and I laughed and I found some old shoes to put on your
feet and the best thing about that moment is that you have shoes and you have feet
