Salt

I tell a story,
and my words are a grain of salt
on a roasted almond
in a bag of trail mix
near a shopping cart
in the grocery section
of a big-box store
built in a growing town
on the western edge
of a sprawling continent
wrapped with an ocean
and spinning on a planet
flung out into space
amid the endless stars.
And those stars,
like salt,
tell a story.