Tagged: spices
the recipe for
the recipe for
a delicious birthday must
include all the right
spices – friends, old and new, and
a healthy dose of family
.
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we can easily
we can easily
rely on one another’s
comfort food to make
it through, borrowing spices
whose names we need not pronounce
.
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even in the big
even in the big
city, the “little” enclaves –
Chinatown, K-Town,
Little Senegal, Guyana,
Italy, Poland, India –
cannot contain
the vastness
of our mothers’
spices, simmering
on the stove
.
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there are scrolls to
there are scrolls to
each of the world’s
regions tucked into
our kitchen drawer –
we unfurl them, two
or five at a time
over bowl, pan,
or pot, tasting
the mysteries
.
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we find spices where
we find spices where
we may not always expect them –
home, and home again
.
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today, you would be
today, you would be
one-hundred-and-two, the spices
of life coloring
your cheeks – your words, the best kind
of comfort, keeping us warm
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: coloring
let us be only
let us be only
one spice
away from
what makes us
different, or perhaps
two or three
spices away,
enough to tempt
our tastebuds
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: tastebuds
perhaps words are our
perhaps words are our
very first
spices, nestled
on our tongues
like lost and
found
treasures, waiting
to stir
one another’s
pots of
thoughts and
lived experiences,
make little
explosions,
calm unnerved
nerves
.
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being present and
being present and
not being present are two
bottles of spices –
at any given time, we
miss or exceed their uses
.
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on the way to you,
on the way to you,
a clear convergence,
perhaps a pinch
of salt, a taste
of spices to come
.
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