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She Doesn’t Eat Eggs

Diane Fleming

She doesn’t eat eggs. She won’t take
what isn’t hers. There’s a word,
she says, for the want of things
that are not hers: covet. She eats
only plants but does she make pysanky,

heating the stylus in flame, dipping it
in beeswax? Does she etch the protective eye
of Christ on the shell and inch the egg into dye,
crimson with onion skins? A final dunk
into a bath so black, it breaks like night.

There’s a word, she says, for those who crack
eggs that don’t belong to them: bereft.
She lost hours waiting for a resurrection.
One egg, meant to be a keeper,
now a heap of melancholy.

I whisk a couple in the bowl.
Fold in coarse salt. Melt a lump
of fat, turn it nut brown. Stir
the custard until it forms
warm buttery pillows.



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