Puffer Fish

Each day I grow larger,

acquiring lost little bits

of glittering accretion

and breathing life into the husk of my former self.


Yes,

to be devoured

from a small white plate

- the clink and scrape

of cuttlery,

my requiem;


but crammed into that fleshy-lipped

and gaping maw,

a delicate/toxic morsel

to be savored.