In the end the crumb and the ant will become
best friends and the spoon will return every sip
of soup it stole from the bowl the earthworm
will meet the bird halfway a kernel of corn will
remember its boiled cob but the walnut will never
return to its shell the hook will never get along
with the fish even though they have nothing against
each other our mistakes and our erasers will fight
to the death.
Jason Heroux lives in Kingston and is the author of Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines (2016), Memoirs of an Alias (2004), Emergency Hallelujah (2008), Good Evening, Central Laundromat (2010), Natural Capital (2012) and We Wish You a Happy Killday (2014). His work has appeared in magazines and journals in Canada, the U.S., Belgium, France and Italy and has been translated into French, Italian and Arabic. @jason_heroux