Today's poem
At the workbench scribes hunch
illuminating the letters that begin
each word that ever caught the eye like a penny in the gutter
some freshly coined
still smelling like mint
some tarnished with use
tintinnabulate
cupcake
hella
75¢ words to answer $64,000 questions
clerks recopy all the conversations into ledgers
footnoting flashbacks flagging foreshadowing
noting each woman that ever proclaimed a sentence
that might be served at a future date
All these ledgers notebooks logs tallies
line the shelves
a catalogue matured from a kitten
to better review the puzzling evidence
in front of the rows of spines
collections spring up
nine plastic goldfish
three quartz pieces the size of a thumb nail
four or five toy cows
lares and penates
in the break room someone always has the radio playing
the electric kettle heats up
illuminating the letters that begin
each word that ever caught the eye like a penny in the gutter
some freshly coined
still smelling like mint
some tarnished with use
tintinnabulate
cupcake
hella
75¢ words to answer $64,000 questions
clerks recopy all the conversations into ledgers
footnoting flashbacks flagging foreshadowing
noting each woman that ever proclaimed a sentence
that might be served at a future date
All these ledgers notebooks logs tallies
line the shelves
a catalogue matured from a kitten
to better review the puzzling evidence
in front of the rows of spines
collections spring up
nine plastic goldfish
three quartz pieces the size of a thumb nail
four or five toy cows
lares and penates
in the break room someone always has the radio playing
the electric kettle heats up