Wednesday, October 16, 2013

How is making a black bean salad with garbanzos similiar to writing poetry?

Flexibility and the use of what is at hand. 

Right now, I'm thinking flexibility might be a similar activity to editing.

I'm still thinking.

In the meantime --

THERE ARE NO BLACK BEANS IN THIS BLACK BEAN SALAD

she would have had
to reach into the back
of the cupboard
for the black beans
she refused
she reached
in her need
for what was
front-and-center:

garbanzo beans

to which she added
almonds
cherry tomatoes
apple, chopped
persimmon, cubed
handful of spinach
black olives, pitted
fresh thyme
olive oil
splash balsamic vinegar
pepper.
Under differ circumstances
she would include
oh, so willingly
cheese, either feta
or cheddar.


And into this mix
come tastes

varied
pleasing
surprising,
leading
to a thirst
for editing.   

  








1 comment:

  1. H/continued


    At the factory, in a small town faraway,
    the foreman had sunk into a deep despair
    No one paid him any attention
    and he had lost what stature he had previously had

    Locked into his fears
    he meshed perfectly with the edges
    of the fears of others around him
    And he realized his mistake was tragic

    He compared his fate to the observations of Simone Forti
    writing once in A Handbook Of Motion
    "I think back of him in terms of laser light
    which is so powerful not because there is so much light

    But because light is bounced back and forth
    until it is tuned." So his actions of suspicion
    had brought forth more suspicion, and the note
    left so carelessly in his apron, had mislaid the truth.

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