1. Metaphor

b...read for book
c...rust..for cover
s...pine. for knife
s lice....for letter
g...rain...for word


2. Writer

reptilian brain
wrinkling licker
somehow sinks
somehow slinks
through lounges
for tongues

3. Speaks

quiet and curious as conversations
with broken glass
a deer or
dandelion

4. Hungry

to consume to remorse
every morsel
on the cutting board
to hunt to devour
every black fly
on the page

5. Reality.

all's gone
dinner's done
Nonetheless
I guess
not
the scale
and the dull knife