Author Archives: Timothy P. Schilling

Sumptuous

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Wondering why

wet sand sticks

but wet rocks don’t, I

thought I’d ply my

scientist father-in-law.

He’ll know, I thought.

But then, No,

I thought,

I won’t.

For gain of the knowledge of that

will mean loss of my pleasure in this.

Give me the taffy of sunlit unknowns!

On making Dutch apple pie

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With Apologies to My Wife

 

Pivoting between

the bowl with the apple

and plate with the peel,

I put some

one in the other

and other in the one.

Since such

sins of inattention

are frequent and real,

to God and woman

I humbly appeal:

Forgive the slivers

between tooth and gum,

and all the apple-

based deeds I have done!