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Spilled

Posted in poetry, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on March 7, 2025| Leave a Comment »

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection. James Salter

Spilled

Maple syrup spilled
in the back of my refrigerator.

As I scrub, beeps sound
a warning. Close the door. Now.

A fridge’s chill skill
weakens in furnace-power territory.

Maple goo has attacked a jar of pickles
This won’t take long, I hope.

I scrub, giving no anesthesia to mechanical
cries. Yet when I waited on hold

for three-calls-ahead
at the local pharmacy

on a busy Monday afternoon,
I sighed and paced, as if

the workload of my short-staffed
drugstore didn’t exist.

A bit at a time, I say to the fridge
opened for briefer moments.

A more intensive task comes next.
Removing stickiness inside me.

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Spilled

Posted in inspiration, tagged , , , , , on March 6, 2021| Leave a Comment »

Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean. (Laurence J. Peter)

Maple syrup spilled

in the back of my refrigerator.

 

As I scrub, beeps sound

a warning. Close the door. Now.

 

A fridge’s chill skill weakens

when heated air threatens its territory.

 

Maple goo has attacked a jar of pickles

This won’t take long, I hope.

 

I scrub, giving no anesthesia to mechanical

cries. Yet when I wait on hold

 

for three-calls-ahead

at my local pharmacy

 

during a pandemic rage,

I sometimes sigh and pace, as if

 

the workload of a short-staffed drugstore didn’t exist.

I have an agenda. Twenty-six hours forced into twenty-four.

 

A bit at a time, I say to the fridge

opened for briefer moments.

 

A more intensive task comes next.

Removing stickiness inside me.

 

 

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