Speck of cheese,
\ndot of bread,
\nslivered hint of once pie.
\nThey stir up our hunger,
\nsend a flare down
\ndesire’s dark hole,
\ninvite us to rise up again from here.<\/p>\n
A crumb of bird humming
\ncontends, hungry, with the bee.
\nGreen-back glow and the long beak
\nsneaks into flowers with smooth insertion
\nuntil each is entered and emptied.<\/p>\n
Crumble at my feet:
\nsediment raised form below crust;
\nits billon-year body shifted and smashed
\nin descending order:<\/p>\n
boulder
\ncobble
\npebble
\ngranule
\nsand
\nsilt
\nclay
\nA precise language for the making of crumbs.<\/p>\n
From the Old English cruma<\/em>, Speck of cheese, dot of bread, slivered hint of once pie. They stir up our hunger, send a flare down desire’s dark hole, invite us to rise up again from here. A crumb of bird humming contends, hungry, with the bee. Green-back glow and the long beak sneaks into flowers with smooth insertion until each … Continue reading Ode to the Crumb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3604,"featured_media":658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6875],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6875"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 05:47:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\na word of obscure origin
\ntraced back to the Latin
\ngruma<\/em>, heap of earth.
\nAnd here language’s leavings
\nare larger than we’d dared imagine,
\nfill our pockets
\nwith bits of earth and bread,
\nsend us forward
\nthrowing
\nour crumbs
\n& ourselves
\naway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"