A disturbing refrigerator find...

...on top of a plate that I had rested on top of a bowl of sugar-free jello, as a make-shift lid:

Among some small bits of kale leaves that had fallen down from higher refrigerator racks, a sharply quadrangular bright green beetle, its legs folded in from the cold, and when I throw it in the kitchen sink and start running the water to flush it away, its legs start creakily moving.

. . .

(I had bought two huge bundles of kale just that day or the day before, one for salads and one for a soup, and my suspicion is that the beetle was somewhere in there, in those big bundles of kale leaves, and the cold of my refrigerator had forced it to crawl out from within and then at some point the cold also made it lose control and drop down from whatever leaf where it had been resting on, there in the darkness of my refrigerator.)