And when they sat down in the morning
to bowls of cold cereal, each in turn
would notice the blades of a ceiling fan
spinning at the bottom of their spoons,
small enough to swallow, yet no one
ever mentioned it, neither looking up
nor into each other's eyes for fear
of feeding the hunger that held them there.
1995
Shorty
Contemporary
2025
Doubt & Fear
Food
LGBTQ+ Experience
Poems of the Everyday
Alliteration
the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words appearing in succession
Imagery
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
Media Res
a literary work that begins in the middle of the action (from the Latin “into the middle of things)