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Definition work is the work we are always doing.
Marissa W. Chen lives in New York and often visits clumps of weeds in the park. She finds and collects ephemera on IG @marissawchen.
Definition work is the work we are always doing.
Marissa W. Chen lives in New York and often visits clumps of weeds in the park. She finds and collects ephemera on IG @marissawchen.
EGG SALAD
MWC-2020:
07-17-20
07-17-20
EGG SALAD
BY MARISSA W. CHEN
MWC-2020: 07-17-20
Published in Overheard Lit Mag, 2022.
Salvador Dali. Œufs sur le plat (sans le plat), 1932, oil on canvas. The Dali Museum, Cat. no. P 297
Tomorrow I will make egg salad. With olive oil and lots of salt.
Each hardboiled egg is rolled under the sensitive bit of my palm. I gather the shells on a cutting board, pressing the cracked curves flat with an index finger until they resemble tectonic plates gliding and crashing, pulling away from each other. Slowly and relentlessly.
The two shelled eggs are cut with a fork directly into a scalloped glass bowl, followed by a shower of salt and a stream of oil, green as grass. In our small galley kitchen, I lean against the wall and finish off the bowl without leaving the counter, one spoonful at a time.
There is nowhere else to be.
At night I dream of eggs, ovoid and heavy, lumpily rolling over hills in my bedroom floor, shedding their shells as they go.
The next day I will wake up and, thinking yesterday was a dream, pull out two eggs from the fridge and do it all over again.
I do this until I’ve run out of eggs and can’t remember where they’ve gone.