Tagged: market

pink can be

pink can be
affordable today
and not tomorrow,
quite arbitrarily,
we are enmeshed
in the delicate
engine of supply
and demand,
intentionally
blind to the
machinations
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: arbitrarily

we are studying

we are studying
purple asparagus at
the market, having

accepted that your favorite
bouquets are in the produce aisle
.
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it’s a service, this

it’s a service, this
gutting and cleaning of fish.
the fishmonger spills

the contents with a smart chop,
unplugs and repositions
.
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i went back to the

i went back to the
market and bought everything
you’d touched the last time

we were here, lost and found, re-
discovered – yes, a narwhal
.
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monday, eight-

monday, eight-
thirty, the market
arrives, freshly
bathed
in sunrise,
each stand at
rest, gleaming
like race horses,
intense, astir,
possibilities anchored
.
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the man who sells

the man who sells
stars by the crateful
at the market is a
friend who walks
twenty blocks to
drink to your
health is a
lover of honeybees
is a repairer of
broken things by
day and a
father who tucks
his boys to
bed by night
.
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