Shopping Trip

The marketplace aisles

full of nutrition

or something like it

gleam in neon bath

This crumpled list

is not specific enough

There are how many kinds of lettuce?

Milk, eggs, cheese, butter

Good dairy done

Bread is where??

I reach, hand open past my knee

Seeking little fingers that always grabbed

Daddy – the cereal

the applesauce

the mac and cheese

Daddy – how about this treat?

Warm and hollow

My fingers seek

The touch from a decade past

and it is a tear

that gleams in neon bath

as I seek nutrition

or something like it.