[GRATITUDE] FOOD

[GRATITUDE] FOOD

Hunger

Come home.
I will feed you
pasta and pears,
Jorge's burnt-tongue
chili, Aunt Millie's
buttermilk pie.

In the blue
mornings, we will
sit by the east
window. I will
soothe you with
soup and milk,

sweeten you with honey
and chocolate,
cappuccino
in the afternoons,
sweet wine
at night.

Your skin, pale
and dry from long
absence, will fill
and flush
with peppers
and garlic.

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For 30 Days of Gratitude, an art journaling challenge at The Lilypad.

Elements from Rebecca McMeen, farfarhill, and Zibi. The font is FontleroyBrown. The poem is mine.