Tagged: nutrition

mama’s purslane grows

mama’s purslane grows
dutifully, as shelter
for the frog, a snack

for the deer, and nutrition
for our family omelette
.
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you have no snacks in

you have no snacks in
your apartment
, my mom says
this in the tone of

a scolding, and i am all
at once embarrassed and proud
.
20170405:2056
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
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the thing that can turn you

the thing that can turn you
into a vegetarian doesn’t look
like much – it is a switch
like any other switch, a
button, a memory, an
unannounced instance.
whatever the circumstance,
the best advice in town is
never give it a name
.
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