Deliberate

Deliberate as dirt.
Deliberate as water
Deliberate as carved stone.
Deliberate as poem on a page.
Deliberate as sauce left at the bottom of plate is another kind of writing.

Thistles

Baby artichokes sliced and sauted with garlic, black olives, pepper, almonds & tossed with sliced Roma tomatoes.  & lots of lemon.  Artichokes make any dish otherwordly.

What makes the poem otherwordly?  A set of prescribed words?   A combination?  The mood of the mouth & ear?  What is the color of an otherwordly poem?

Stars

Before I was born, there were stars. These for example.  Even as a child I know this colander to be a family treasure.  It still is.  Beautiful & useful.  Exacly, what I would like a poem to be. How the ripe depends upon these stars.

& these stars, always present.

Watercolor

Amazing what apps provide.  Photo to watercolor with a click.  Of course, the cat is the magic.  I hope he is imagining my next poem.  I know he's imagining his next meal.

I'm thinking the kinship between words & water -
colors.  You probably are, too.

Kaffir

Kefir with fruit, sharing space with a succulent

Sometimes what you need is no farther than the balcony.  Introducing the kaffir lime (known as Makrut lime).  Notched leaves and tiny fruit.  New leaves are glossy rich brown.  Small spaces are perfect for unlikely neighbors.  Words are small spaces perfect for poems -- unlikely & succulent.

Seeing

depends upon the amount of light allowed in.  

Such is the unexpected.  Such is beauty.  

Of course, light is the sound poems

most desire.  & the taste of Spring asparagus.

Straight

through the heart.  Isn't that an interesting twist of words.   And yet, Spring is just that -- straight
through our hearts, into our hearts.  & we smile.  Just as the soup tantalizes the tongue and delivers joy.  & the poem, you ask?  Straight through the eye & heart.  Or did I mean art?