The series ends with this. And is there a better way to end a series on food? I didn’t think so.
Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine
Contributor Series 8: Feast and Famine
Chewing Fruit and Legumes
By Julie Ellinger Hunt
You made garbanzo beans
and figs
and hired a cherub to fly
above,
flap her wings,
and make perfect shadow
dances on concrete.
You pulled the figs apart
holding their weightiness
in large palms,
the heat from sun
and breath
and beans
fogged your glasses up.
“Chewing Fruit and Legumes,”
you said, would
make a perfect poem.
The cherub dove
down and snatched
your glasses from your face,
then a fig,
then a kiss.
I just giggled and
asked the cabana boy
for another drink.
And another hour
with you in this silly dream
that makes me smile.
Julie Ellinger Hunt’s most recent poem to appear at vox poetica was Hidden Behind the Font (March 2011).
This played out nicely. I wanted to join you.
I think the whole world wants to be in a place like this.