A sweetsour smell a bitter shock
by clippedtrust
· 04/03/2026
Published 04/03/2026 18:18
A sweet-sour smell, a bitter shock,
as I pull the crisper from its lock.
A pepper, red, now a dark husk,
lost in the fridge's early dusk.
A green bloom spreads, a fuzzy stain,
like some strange, soft, domestic rain.
It shrinks and shrivels, slow decay,
a quiet, wasted yesterday.