Beverley Bie Brahic
O Fridge
O Sea of Tranquility. Your light is always on.
Broccoli, meat morgue, bread and butter
lettuce heads. Cream rises on the milk. Here’s
a jar of mother’s lemon curd and her
these twelve months dead. Ears
of corn, silk-tasseled, dream. Sleep, I shall not
disturb you. Jacob rolls the stone
from the well’s mouth and marries Leah
by mistake. O Mirror of my Ice-Dispensing Soul!
Entranced the hawk drops from its branch. No ball
of yarn, no cat. No goodnight moon. No eggs add
them to the list. A six-pack. Fertile, brown.
Go back to bed, you say. Shut the door. Do not
waste electricity. Everything will be all right.
Broccoli, meat morgue, bread and butter
lettuce heads. Cream rises on the milk. Here’s
a jar of mother’s lemon curd and her
these twelve months dead. Ears
of corn, silk-tasseled, dream. Sleep, I shall not
disturb you. Jacob rolls the stone
from the well’s mouth and marries Leah
by mistake. O Mirror of my Ice-Dispensing Soul!
Entranced the hawk drops from its branch. No ball
of yarn, no cat. No goodnight moon. No eggs add
them to the list. A six-pack. Fertile, brown.
Go back to bed, you say. Shut the door. Do not
waste electricity. Everything will be all right.
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