Short Albumen Poems

crackin' eggs into
clean glass mixing bowl, beating....
clear albumen drips

housewife observes scene
as light reflects on egg whites....
senryu in there?  ...

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See the full moon's bright eye,
you may use her as guide.
capture her sclera, pupil, and iris
in colors you see fitting on a clear evening.
Cut out her yellow yolk of an egg
reveal just albumen as if to mix in potent drink -
look at the moon! it is a silver balloon
suspended high up in space.
feel the moon.  it feels like a heavy ball
it holds a patient's leg in traction.

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The sunrise was like a fertilized egg
golden of yolk and flecked with blood,
it crowed to the mist filled morn.
It ran over the hillside frying the vegetation.
The brilliant white albumen flowed
into the vague gray day.

The egg itself blushed at the flattery
extending pseudo pods of white 
like rays outward against 
the steel gray of the frying pan
it's yolk congealed a burgeoning
like the celestial eye of Ra....

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