A Poem to Cut into Pieces and Bread of Memory--Challenge Poems for National Poetry Month

Calla lily curves cut like silk skirts.
Slices of suet are carved like pancakes and syrup.
Spider silk strands cling and don't break only fade.
Bread crumbles and squishes if the knife is dull.
Crinkling dress pattern pinned to cloth sticks in scissors.
Exacto knive exactly placed evenly slices clean.
Scooped up paper inexactly tears eye into tears.
Shear clatter and clank drops metal like candy.
And the arrows take all afternoon to plane for the airway exit.
Hedge clippers hedge hung up by a two thick branch.
Saw yaws and ziz-zad-ziz like grasshopper waggling a leg and sets.
And if I cut them all up, they still make subtle sounds
of memory, playing into the night.

Bread of Memory

A Poem pattern to plane.

Pieces playing pancakes and syrup
don't break .

Pinned is dull, saw yaws subtle.

And if I hedge,
take up paper tears
the knive of afternoon
is inexactly hung up by two.

Scooped spider silk slices
clean and sets.

Shear to cling
lily curves of afternoon
crumbles.

Suet
for the ziz-zad-ziz
the cloth, the crinkling
into the night
still make sounds.

Until the clatter,
the dropped scissors,
the hedge clippers clank,
the cut and slice of knife
evening it all up.

Airway exit
carved like an exacto knive curves.

And the thick branch and grasshopper
squishes.