First, what's a fiesta salad? All that is ripe & colorful & tossed on a plate or a white shallow bowl with an accompaniment of great music. Creative, health-loving, and eye & ear snapping. Much like Fiesta on the Hill, Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center's annual fundraiser. Always the third Sunday of the month, October 21 10-6 along Cortland. Always a ton of great music. Free.
Poetry is music & food & meant to be shared.
A Fiesta Salad for Lunch to Anticipate Fiesta on the Hill
heirloom tomatoes, chunks
avocado, cubed
almonds
Persian cucumbers, cubed
Welch cheddar, cubed
Fuji apple, chuncks
peppers, twists of
basil, fresh & torn
olive oil
fresh and torn she rises from the sofa
ReplyDeleteto get another glass of water
her thoughts are based on science
and the alchemy of the past
but mechanics drive the form toward
a window, a burst of air, a prayer
there is little redemption in going over
and over what was done and what wasn't
and so the water cools, the erasure
set in motion
but pictures pull her back to the sadness
and she must stay there a while
no sooner has the back door opened
than the frantic breeze beckons
and all balls are dropped, all sentences
find their immeasureable way