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Toast Crumbs

Toast Crumbs

Painting of toast with red jam spread on it

Toast crumbs on the plate
And through the window
Crumbs the birds left
Outside the feeder

In the yard crumbs around
Little tree sleeping
Cut down by a neighbor
Sapling in the gully instead of

Leaves waving good-bye
To that day’s crumbs
That shine through the jet stream
Create ghosts of limbs

Lead us to Yalikavak’s boats
Doves cooing in HopeTown
Horses in the sand dunes
Crumbs of different lives

A crumb of you and you
And you and you
Take a taste, bite into the toast
Melted butter, boysenberry jam