Pancake Corpses

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:00:00 -0500

Someone told me
they’d become good at making pancakes
as if mastery had quietly crept in
after years of early-morning battles.

And I could almost see them:
the pancake corpses,
scattered like pale moons across a kitchen floor.
Little doughy casualties of a person learning
how not to burn every beginning.

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Pancake Corpses