Improv 2 Week 2

A portion of Mark Halliday’s “Muck-Clump”
My wife was being too busy around the kitchen one morning
I think to give her the sense of being on top of things
and when I poured a bowl of Shredded Wheat Spoonfuls for Devon
my wife bustled over and said “oh Devon likes to have more cereal
than that”
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My wife was too busy around the kitchen—
it gave her the sense of being on top of things.
Scourge the pots too large for the dishwasher,
slam drawers of forks and pizza cutters,
Lysol counters and that one corner
where Grandma fell last night, its
rubied grout winking under track lighting.
Her fingers trace the tile veins that
impressed foreheads and soles, and the
memory glows with the her own reflection in
blood and aneurisms. She sacrifices Grandma’s
favorite coffee cup to the sheetrock and shards
shatter the floor and spice rack, slowly revolving.