Posts Tagged ‘food poem’

The Occasioned Meal
It wasn’t that I was in from way out of town,
(– A thousand miles? It’s nice you could come visit.)
Or that we sat around a too crowded kitchen table,
generations: Grandmother, second cousin, thirds,
tearing up to recall men gone long, all. A first.
Or that it would be the last I witnessed
Mary Nell or Willie [...]