A mangled apple core
clutches the taste of the day
before yesterday.

Even its shadow
has shriveled to pale silence.
Nothing left to eat.

It’s an apple skeleton,
not a spider set to pounce.
Don’t have to squash it.

–Paul Sohar
Bigger than They Appear:
Anthology of Very Short Poems
(Accents Publishing)

Paul Sohar, chemist for a living, poet for the soul, has nine books of translations and one of his own: Homing Poems (Iniquity Press, 2005).