Memorable

Certain meals linger in my mind, most of them simple, a few elaborate, wedding dinners definitely! In each case, it’s the event, the people I’m with, a cousin, new friends, old friends, that make the meal, that particular moment, special. Even the smell of the food lingers, with the taste, and surroundings. I’m sure this happens for everyone …

MEMORABLE

asparagus
dripping butter                                                              
onto hot toast

a double cheese pizza
eaten alone
missing him

cheeseburger
and chocolate milkshake
when I landed
Halifax to Vancouver
rejoicing at being
home again

meals that linger
in memory
for the flavours
and the people

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‘A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art.
From Inanna Publications, 2016.