Anticipating a long beach walk, what meal/what poem will transpire?
Food and poetry both share a weight of the unknown. A weight of anticipation. Today it is sunny. Perhaps the poem will be bright. Most probably the dinner, nutritious. Lunch will definitely be sushi.
As he began to awake, he thought of an old friend whose gifts in presenting food and various trinkets intrigued him when he stopped by to visit He wondered how his friend was doing, and where he lived
They used to share such simple and satisfying meals and of course the dessert of local gossip with much wine, many laughs, a few references to mutual friends, and the whiff of new romances
(H. cont.)
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whose gifts in presenting food and various trinkets
intrigued him when he stopped by to visit
He wondered how his friend was doing, and where he lived
They used to share such simple and satisfying meals
and of course the dessert of local gossip
with much wine, many laughs, a few references
to mutual friends, and the whiff of new romances