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Haibun
Kitchen
Castles
Wizened sweet
potatoes sprout elegant slim towers—fantasy
castles, stretching tall towards the light. Mud wasps build
adobe villas. Cobwebs shimmy in cornices. My compost bin crawls
with amoebae working wonders. A splayed, zapped mouse gone
solid, clings to the back of this old stove. Python's lacy skin
is coiled on the kitchen floor. Rodents' droppings in gnawed oak
drawers. Lizard-licked black skinned bananas. Green frog flicks
in the cool of the sink. Swallows enter at their will. Red Back
spiders spintraps in windowsills.
homeward bound
marching breadcrumbs
across the table
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