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.