Takes the middle road? Playing safe with rhythm? Or perhaps, indecisive? Wants it all?
When the cook makes a salad by slicing the radishes lengthwise and chopping the Persian cucumbers in small bites, is she preparing food with epodic flare?
Breakfast salad (fashioned in an epodic manner)
Persian cucumbers
largish radishes
honey tangerines
blue cheese
almonds
pepper
olive oil
fresh herb of choice
An aside: if you have long legs, will your stride reflect such? If you be a poet with long legs, will you avoid writing short lines?
On the hopeful murmurs of a breeze
ReplyDeleteonce blown
She takes her fortunes to the edge
& sets them down
Ignores the turning of the cards and dice
To wander
No one pretends to know the outcome
of such behavior
Mixed up as it is with desire and dangerous
appetities
Watch, say the ancient spirits, for the five
hindrances