Tagged: hungry
holiday baking
holiday baking
for the masses:
eighty-four chewy
molasses spice, one
hundred chocolate
crinkles, and
one hundred and eight
rosettes, give or take
extra volume, minus
two mouthfuls
.
20221214:1834
y
on the first day of
on the first day of
spring, an earthworm, dancing in
our planter, squirming
for us to till the soil, like
an impatient child, hungry
.
20210320:1928
y
crumbs later, we will
crumbs later, we will
not have to pretend where did
it all go? – old friends
.
20180419:2246
y
between hungry and
between hungry and
full are syllables, stuffed with
sweet, sour, umami
.
20180319:2254
y
between now and
between now and
soon, we will single
out a restaurant
worthy
of our weekend
appetites and not
promise to stop
window-shopping
as we walk home,
stuffed
and discovering
a whole new
dimension
to order envy
.
20171029:1909
y
we do not know our
we do not know our
appetites until we cross
paths with it – sometimes
in broad daylight, other times,
in the middle of the night
.
20171007:1407
y
thinking of home is
thinking of home is
costly – memories demand
much of us, whirring
.
20151215:0814
y
it’s feeding time, we
it’s feeding time, we
are doling out
just the right
portions –
digestible
morsels of our
past, present,
future – enough
to swallow
whole, racing
to metabolize
one another’s
presence,
happy to be
nine-tenths full
.
20150307:1047
y
the heart often
the heart often
lingers dutifully
in orbit,
breaks off
pieces of
memory when
hungry, stays
close to avoid
missing
any shooting stars
.
20150111:0125
y
certainly more
certainly more
than once
in a lifetime, it gets
caught, entangled
by its very own
hands – the exact
minute, the hour,
is not so
important as the
standstill,
the hungry
gears of time
thwarted,
gnawing
at the adjacent
memories
.
20120808:0854
y
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