Snake

.  

Light is a snake among fractals

as words slitter through a poem

As the cook wonders 

how to prepare

a meal with plenty of light

& surprise

Wanton

is the onion.
And rarely alone in its delicious mayhem.
Unruly, too, as should most cooks be.   Most poems.

Color

as dining companion.

Rice is and isn't
simple, not to be dismissed.

Here with avocado,
tomato, sauted shallots,
garlic, black olives, almond, lemon, pepper, cilantro.

And the poem is forming with each fork-
full.

When food is colorful,
one never eats alone.

Lily

Calla.
Hepburn.
A sense of snow.
One could lose oneself
in a drift of pollen
or in a recipe
or in a poem.
And all these
ways to find
yourself
well nurtured.

Jasmine

Nothing modest about.
Athough delicate to the eye, heady and sensual.
If it were a poem -- a sublime Spring haiku.
If food -- a light yet elegant sauce for fish flavored with hint of tarragon.
Decidedly, a high heel of vines.

Banister

reflected with the precision of paint.   Sometimes the fleeting appears solid.  You can touch the flowering succulent, but can you touch  the intersection of reflection & flower?  Can you say the poem that is only reflected in your mind as each of us recalls the first time we saw an egg yolk?

Are we off the railing yet?

Out

of season
the un-
expected
feels
riper

Swimming

OLIVES SWIMMING UPSTREAM

This evening the dish is made
and the poem is only
the title.  

Protea

Otherwordly
sirens to make us
insects
& yet protea
as practical
resilent as a salad
as the small poem
who feels no limits.

Cliff-

hanger.
limestone bluffs
& sand always a fine canvas
for calligraphic voices
of all sentient
beings.

compression.
how many words
contained in the feminine,
how many lines
greening?

how fragile
how firm

Guardian

of sun

of knapsack

of inspiration

the very act 

inspires

haiku

Conversation

over a meal.  

Or at least encroaching

on a conversation.  

Notice, if you will,

how waves are line breaks.  

Notice, for a second, 

that lunch over crab 

always welcomed

especially when 

the company 

exquisite.  

Pt Reyes

Thanks, Kim.