Welcomewelcomewelcome and
warmhandswarmhands
warmarms extend.
Lifted over the threshold by the elbows,
pulled forward by the waist.
Into the pool of light and the joy of a loaded table,
a conversation in
shorthand.
Red-rimmed glasses, gossip, secrets, and
philosophies, re-lost and re-found in the platter and
the fork discarded on the floor.
Met minds
coughed into napkins
soaked into damask
spreading
in wide pools.
Dissected by the carving
knife.
Drowned in the
decanter.
Turned out into
saucers and:
Remade.
5 comments:
Ooooh, I like this. I like the physicality of the words and ideas turned into food.
:)
I wrote it on the train home from Easter dinner. Glad you like it!
I kind of want to try my hand at more fiction, but I'm so damned nervous about actually commiting anything to paper. It's like I have a mental block about actually writing, except that's rubbish because I'm writing bits and pieces all the time without realising. Need to get over myself.
I know what you mean, though. Sometimes deliberately setting something down feels far more serious than it should. I don't know about you, but in my case, the problem is deciding that I'm capital-letters Starting something, because then I feel responsible for it and freak out that I won't be able to finish. I often need to repeat to myself that no one has to see it, ever, if I don't want them to, and I can chuck it whenever I feel like doing so.
Still, I write my best stuff when I'm actually avoiding writing the one thing I've identified as The Big Project. That's why I found it a lot easier to write my current novel when it was the escape from another novel, and now that I've formally - in my head - shelved the other novel, this one is feeling trickier.
Reading this over, I realise that, as a writer, I'm fairly messed up. :)
In my case it's that I instantly start judging myself instead of just getting on with it and writing. My editing background has ruined my writing! Woe is I!
I think all writers are fairly messed up. Because it's not just about dumping words on a page. The words MEAN something :)
I like it too...and I think I get it!
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