two poems Bits and Pieces

Bits and Pieces

               

The door of the refrigerator

Is telling stories.

The spoon full of chopped olive

Sits in a globe plastic jar

Begging to be remembered.

The catsup has one squirt,

Not enough for half an avocado

But too much to toss out.

Lilkoi jelly was too much

For today’s pancake

But tomorrow needs a new jar.

Bits and pieces

Fill the shelf.

At the same time too much

and too little.

Blueberry Stain

The blueberry smear

On white china dish

Turns purple.

Blueberry acid

And alkali soap,

Chemistry 101.

The sponge scrubs it clean.

Pancake morsels stuck

With lilikoi jelly

 All succumb.

But a faint purple

Remains to call out

“Blueberry pancakes

Were eaten on me!”

How many days

Or weeks or long years

Will we know the story

Of blueberries pancakes.