Recipe for pickled eggs
Today my brain is a pickled egg
Floating, isolated
Inside my skull.
My thoughts taste of vinegar.
My mouth the mason jar lid.
In the night I was boiled
Three hours later
Cooled and peeled.
You must imagine how this feels.
How raw
A shell removed
Fed to the garbage disposal.
Add salt and thick slices of onion.
Refrigerate for three days.
I am a still life of a woman.
Please leave what is unfit for consumption.
Tonia Marie Harris 