Patterns on the Skins of Organic Vegetables (after Kitchen Constellations)

 

I was thinking

about the liquid nature

of soup and stews

 

realize the trimming

I was taught to do is

merely cosmetic

 

now I think

of necessary scraps

I threw away

 

now I think about

the complicity of

beet and radish tails

carrot tops, kale ribs

cauliflower cores

and the necessity of

the whole person

[RK, 10/9/2020]

 

 

 

Scientific American (after Psychology Today)

 

tidal interactions

a squash for the sun

an orange for the earth

a garlic bulb for the moon

 

gravity wells

a yellow onion

on a suspended dish cloth

 

clouds

steam forming beneath

boiling saucepan water

 

your infectious laughter

as I pontificate on

scantily understood subjects

[RK, 10/9/2020]

 

 

 

 

 

I Ching, Hexagram 4 (after Mountain Over Lake)

 

August, a pond in a hollow

on the Appalachian Trail

a climb down considered

and discarded, faced with

dense head high foliage

we don’t even try to part

 

returning, handfuls of

discovered blackberries

jokes about bears

 

returned home, I heat food

in the cast iron skillet

you gifted me the year before

 

October, I touch on the superficiality

of barely connected relationships

where once rested juice smeared skin

now anger and resentment flare

our days get shorter

[RK, 10/9/2020]