Sunday, September 07, 2014

Today's Sermon


APPETITE

I eat these

wild red raspberries

still warm from the sun

and smelling faintly of jewelweed

in memory of my father



tucking the napkin

under his chin and bending

over an ironstone bowl

of the bright drupelets

awash in cream



my father

with the sigh of a man

who has seen all and been redeemed

said time after time

as he lifted his spoon



men kill for this.

~ Maxine Kumin, 1925 - 2014

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