Flatware Drawer

knives, forks, and spoons
svelte stainless bodies 

the forks’ gleaming tines
the knives’ hungry blades

the spoons’ spooning
dreaming romance

all in their allotted slots
functional, anticipatory 

awaiting set tables
the meal’s lifted beginning

Ed Higgins's poems and short fiction have appeared in various print and online journals including Monkeybicycle, Danse Macabre, Ekphrastic Review, and Triggerfish, among others. Ed is the assistant editor for Brilliant Flash Fiction. He has a small farm in Yamhill, Oregon, raising a menagerie of animals— including a rooster named StarTrek.