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Vegetable stock, diced turnip, diced onion, spoon, bowl

mosaic stochastic

few variables

but infinite possibilities

myriad myriad patterns

..

diced turnip floats

and crowds into an array

and the dicer of the turnip

suddenly remembers a byzantine mosaic

he saw in a book fifty years ago

..

the probability

of that snapshot memory

floating to the top of his thoughts

leapt from vanishingly small

to certainty

..

our memories cram a landfill

in the hinterlands of our souls

but make the right soup

and all is available

much more than soup

here is a victory, a fulfillment

of a modest dream, to use crock-potted

refrigerator ingredients

and store-bought crackers

procured during a long walk on a cold night

to add hot soup to that home-again cracker toter

and give him belly-warmth

and a sense of accomplishment

and untroubledness.