Sunday, October 4, 2009

ON THE TABLE

ginger’s zing
pierces pear’s
sweet cream

garlic’s bite
snaps grape’s
tart green

basil’s
sum/
mery
pungent
flavor

adds to
kitchen’s
savory
fragrance

earth’s
beauty
and
bounty
in cobalt
bowls

fill our
brimming
happy
bellys

grace
this
wobbly
old
wooden
table

a grateful
cook
grins
and
swallows

(ambles
slow
as
sticky
syrup
of
amber
maple)

licks
his
slippery
eager
lips

and
chomps
through
thin
crimson
skin

from
early
Fall’s
fat
tempting
first born
child--

Oh Man!
that thirst
quenching
juice-filled
crunch
of crisp
staunch
apple.

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