if one of its properties is x=beauty
can any of its other properties, like y, be known
(something has changed/cinched)
and, as such,
can it ever have anything at all
blinding
the ground around it barren
in the same world

thick stale slices to speak
biting one's lips
crumbly, starchy
a standstill sweetness

kept separate from the bowl of milk
and a few morsels added at a time
it is an odd formation--cereal in milk
the interface of two entities
the milk, though liquid, is solid--essentially uninterrupted
the bobbing cereal--liquid with pendulous bonds disrupted from below

...the recursive mid point

nibbling at a memory thought
emptied and unrecognizable

to make time between bites
saving the images
to stop then...

the one side of the word, baked and turned over
with no danger of spilling out of the cradle