Tagged: generations

fielding questions of

september arrives

september arrives
with the monarch butterflies,
five generations

all at once waving hello
and goodbye in our backyard
.
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mom cooks fish the way

mom cooks fish the way
her mama cooks fish
the way her grandma
cooked fish the way i
could never seem to cook
fish, no matter how
closely i watched,
how diligently
i took notes
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: fish

there will always be

there will always be
new old recipes masking
as old new, handed-

down-through-the-generations
delights, i won’t tell if you won’t
.
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tell us your stories

floor after floor,

as a species, we

as a species, we
press our luck, bury
ourselves in
making a living,
deterred and
undeterred

by the risk of
making an
impact, at
the rate of
unforeseeable
lifetimes
.
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a bite of your home-

a bite of your home-
made fish nugget
generations of
women trading
secrets in
the kitchen
.
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