2025 Yahtzee Roll #2: Fill #1

Title: Shopping
Poetic Form: Blues Sonnet
Rating: Gen
No. of Lines: 14
Prompt:
Summary: a blues sonnet about finding something genuine in setting which is about manipulation.

Shopping by okapi

approach bright shrine of the material
thick gates spring wide most immaterial
of worth compared to juice and cereal

brands draw first blood in retail-flail assault
Epsom, Morton, Himalayan, a salt,
bold words, bold claims, colors bleed from lines of fault

round numbers go a-numbing in sign print
rosetta stone coupon for the fine print
all plastic-wrapped devil’s food, all heaven-sent

And yet reward is waiting at the end,
in natter-chatter with a shop-worn friend,
exchange more real, more joy than choose or spend

when membrane pulls tight, tight enough to scream,
remember: lettuce rings up with ice cream

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I also did a collage. It turned out weird. I don't have enough modern ephemera to make my idea work, I think. Oh, well, it looked cool in my head :)

Word: Ogival

ogival [ō-ˈjī-vəl]

adjective

1. having the shape of a pointed arch

examples

1. The 43mm watch features a dark gray zirconium case, a 12 o’clock crown, ogival lugs at its base, and a burgundy dial engraved with the DBD’s classic Côtes de Genève pattern. —Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2023
2. The exuberant phoenix motifs are enclosed within an ogival cartouche, so called because its outlines echo those of a pointed Gothic arch. Bright and Shiny Things, Lee Lawrence, 2010

I found it in Stephen Mitchell's translation of Pablo Neruda's poem "Ode to the Bees": Bees, / pure laborers, / ogival / workers

origin
Middle English ogif and French ogive, diagonal rib of a vault, both from Old French augive, probably from Vulgar Latin obviātīva, from Late Latin obviāta, feminine past participle of obviāre, to resist.