. . . this week’s (completely and totally optional) idea, submitted by January, is to write or share a poem about food.
I found the poem below a few years ago, in the food section of our local newspaper:
mango (a found poem)
place (slender) mango
slice exposing
endspare away
(exquisite) remaining
bits of skinslice (perfumed)
flesh make
two rounded shapeswithout peeling
slice (precious)
close to the piton both sides
cutting (abundance)
cubes of mangoexpose flesh
without biting
(sweetness) skinbend (tongues) fruit
backward pushing
up undermake (shining) bow
mango still
attached to skinmix papaya
pineapple (blossoms)
kiwi sugar limeserve (divine) mango
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