#Haiku Happenings #7: Charley’s latest #haibun for dVerse’s poetics!

I kid you not, it said “International Harvester” on the door! On the white door with chrome accents, a car from the Fifties set on end. The handle required a forceful pull to unlatch – no magnets or vacuum suck. Inside a white and chrome freezer door. Chrome was big then; just look at the dining room table and chairs! A cardboard carton of Land O’Lakes Vanilla. Before bed, the requisite single scoop in the milk-glass bowl, a teaspoon to ensure no one would gorge themselves.
In the main compartment a can of Hershey’s syrup lurked, awaiting a special occasion, two wedge-cuts in the lid, seductively displaying lurid edgings of petrified chocolate substance. “Pssst! Hey, boy! Care to see my edgings?!?” A glass bottle of “medicine” – a recapped 7Up. In a square three-inch by three-inch glass dish, nearly two inches deep, rested the Land O’Lakes blob of butter –…
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