So Many Brooms, Why This Curtain

     Put a broom in the woman's hand and we have the character for "wife."
                —Edoardo Fazzioli, Chinese Calligraphy (trans. Geoffrey Culverwell)

1

Back then, the woman was a few bites left on the chopstick.
There must have been less hunger. The dish was asphyxia by rice.


2

With this broom, her mother said, you inherit the earth.
It was spring. She opened the bedroom window to find the wall outside the window.


3

Every day was a cubicle. Burn after living.
Light disappeared only to appear again in another dimension.


4

There are 2-3 letter differences between wife and witch.
Which are they really. One adult femur in the hot soup stirring the babies.