October 2022 Flash Lit #7 - Grocery Delivery

Grocery Delivery (Not) 

Someone else could pick

my peaches, round, soft.

Someone taller could reach

the hearts of palm

on the top shelf

without surreptitiously

stepping among the

canned beans on the bottom one.

But I need more

than mac and cheese,

bread and butter,

tight-furled broccoli.

I need to be

between different walls.

I need to answer

paper or plastic.

I need to ask

the checker about his daughter,

like every week,

like the world still

makes sense.