L. ‘lamina’ (metal plate) > ‘lamella’ (small metal plate) > Fr. ‘(la) lemelle’ (omelette) > ‘(l’)alemelle) > ‘(l’)amelette’ > ‘(l’)omelette’ (cf. L. ‘ovum’, egg) > Am. E. ‘omelet’

 

O metal

plate, laminate,

O thin and lovely

knife; O fine-cooked

egg, determiner

of present dreams,

your determination

re-parsed; O re-parcelled

diminutive, O metathetic

mirage, tell us what

you know of history.

Of the irregular ovum;

its antecedent. Of its

regularisation.

Of the blade

as it falls.

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