Opening The Can Poem by Susan Lacovara

With a single twist
Your can opener words
Crave into my tin
A jagged edge
Ripped wide
All the contents of my heart
Dumped into a dish
Of both dangerous despair
And decadent remembrance
To be gobbled and swallowed
And choked upon
As I, famished,
Hobble back to the table
Of you
The absence of your love
Leaving me in anorexic ignorance
That others might provide nourishment
Yet the small portions
Of what we once dined upon, ours,
Enough to keep me from wasting away