Porcelain Plate

Zoe Bocek ’24

i’m not broken 

I don’t remember breaking 

you’d think that anyone would remember that 

you’d think that a shard of porcelain would remember the plate it used to be  

you might even think that shard of porcelain wouldn’t remember anything else  

soul 

little soul 

do you remember when you left the body? 

do you remember what your last day with a physical form was? 

do you remember the color of your hair? 

the length of your fingernails? 

do you remember that, little soul? 

and so the shard is thrown to the trash 

will it remember that it used to live on a shelf  

in a cabinet 

and sometimes on a dinner table? 

little shard, 

are you waiting to be glued back together? 

little shard, 

do you ever think that you now, are as much of a plate 

as you ever can be, again?