*designated washer, scrubber,
some dirt, brown burnt fire marks,
impervious to edgy pads, now,
aged into the very being of our
cooking hardware
can only be removed
by human fingernail
as I scrape away residues of years gone by,
mine tears amalgamate in the soapy waters
beneath my bent head
for I cannot remiss/remove
the oldest, burnt,
bottom of the pan,
stains between us,
not with embraces,
nor with whimsy recollections,
certainly not with our
fingernails...*
May 25, 2015
May 25, 2015 at 10:53 AM UTC
*designated washer, scrubber,
some dirt, brown burnt fire marks,
impervious to edgy pads, now,
aged into the very being of our
cooking hardware
can only be removed
by human fingernail
as I scrape away residues of years gone by,
mine tears amalgamate in the soapy waters
beneath my bent head
for I cannot remiss/remove
the oldest, burnt,
bottom of the pan,
stains between us,
not with embraces,
nor with whimsy recollections,
certainly not with our
fingernails...*
