CHRISTMAS EVE
The Feast of the Seven Fishes. My mother serves baccala (salt cod with tomatoes),lemon sole. and fried smelts. These are in the open. I recognize them and eat willingly. The other four are hidden in the pasta. They could be anything found in the ocean. I’ve seen what’s at the fish market spread out on beds of ice. Creatures with claws or tentacles. Creatures hidden in little shell houses. Creatures slithering in a tank. I poke through the strands of spaghetti, looking for suspects, My mother tells me to stop playing with my food and eat.
unsolved mystery
the last page of the book
is missing
Failed Haiku
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