Outside edges ringing clear,
Like suppertime and hand me that,
But evidence of molecules, interior, reflect,
Buoyancy displacement,
Reaction with gases,
Classroom seed cup or Ronnie's hamster,
All this an hour of picking through
A bag of co-op brown rice
For gravel in my mother's voice,
Which sails in extemporaneity, gaiety, and severity,
While my mind steps gingerly from tree to tree,
And I catch sap sticking to right index finger and thumb.
What paranoid hunting, this extrapolating!
SCA 1995