Simmering rice, each graina swelling promise kept,and steamed windows,veil of vapors betweenour exclusive biomeand the rest of Everything.I’ll wash the beans, darlin’,while the onion crispswith the bell pepper,chambered like a heart.We’ll plant the seeds together.They say the secret is in the saute,but I know it’s in the wayyou honor the […]
Month: August 2025
All That Is Me
Cut me from the gristle of this world.Boil me up in a tall hot pot.I want to feel the drudge leach from bone and sinew.Steam every injustice from my pores.Cook me down to my concentrated essence.Steep me in a bold flowering tea.I want to drink in all that is me.-Melissa […]
Peaches and Cream
Peaches and creamI gave you marmalade dreamsSticky in the jar the silence clings20/20 vision I couldn’t see the beamsI knocked and I kickedBursting behind every sceneMad with hunger give me a beanA drop what do you meanMy hands can’t feedIf you don’t water the seedBurning violent in the fieldOpen the […]