Frantic Milk

Jason Snart

The frantic harmony

of a Tuesday morning --

from the top of the stairs

my daughter requests

milk in a cup, “Remember -- ”

she says -- in her sing song

harmony -- “Don’t put it on

top of the cereal. The

slippery mark it makes I don’t

like.”

This is the scarce, the sacred

development: a rail line

receding into the future.