Piping Bags and Frosting
There is a company that produces piping bags
for making beautiful designs out of frosting.
These bags come with one of two nozzles:
square or circle.
(although sometimes combinations of both
may occur during manufacturing)
Frosting is made of all the shapes —
circles and squares — but also
lines,
rectangles,
triangles.
Shapes with any number of sides.
Enclosed.
Open.
Shapes formed into recognizables,
like letters,
numbers,
kittens,
stars,
a forest.
All these, and more,
somehow combine to create
the unimaginable beauty
and shape
of a soul.
Soul-frosting zips about the heavens,
so rarely bouncing off a planet, and nearly never
reaching ours and the piping-bag company.
Once in a very rare while —
say, once every 200 milliseconds —
the company will capture some frosting
right out of thin air,
and randomly assign it a bag.
Does the square or circle nozzle
(or sometimes a combination of both)
accurately represent the frosting within?
How can the frosting come out
not as the single shape of its nozzle,
but as the multitude within?
Human Reflections
Some people look how I feel.
Beautiful?
Tired?
Deep?
Affected?
Annoyed?
Put-upon?
Worn-out?
Amused?
Hurried?
Lost?
Makes me want to capture their image when I see my reflection in them.