It was empty–
jars, shopping malls, promises
hearts, souls, wine glasses and
dinner bowls. All searching to be
full again, each for their own reason—
to hold, to occupy, to deceive, to hate,
to be barely alive, to enhance and to
nourish again– were some of them.
but they all had they same longing—
to be full, to be whole. it was all in relation
to another thing and then the next. jams, skirts,
people, relationships, red wine and chicken parm.