Posted on Saturday, December 15, 2018

Recipe #1

Posted on Thursday, October 18, 2018



TRUTH SERUM
by Naomi Shihab Nye



We made it from the ground-up corn in the old back pasture.

Pinched a scent of night jasmine billowing off the fence,
popped it right in.
That frog song wanting nothing but echo?
We used that.
Stirred it widely. Noticed the clouds while stirring.
Called upon our ancient great aunts and their long slow eyes
of summer. Dropped in their names.
Added a mint leaf now and then
to hearten the broth. Added a note of cheer and worry.
Orange butterfly between the claps of thunder?
Perfect. And once we had it,
had smelled and tasted the fragrant syrup,
placing the pan on a back burner for keeping,
the sorrow lifted in small ways.
We boiled down the lies in another pan till they disappeared.
We washed that pan.





*Beautiful poem shared by Joanna Colbert from www.gaiansoul.com on her latest newsletter.

Cherry cranberry pie

Posted on Monday, June 25, 2018

Yesterday
I kept a secret.
A secret that was not mine to keep.
I rolled it up under my sleeve
And when I got home
Like an old man hides his money
So did I. I've picked up the mattress
And kept the secret on my bed

under me

Do you keep secrets on your bed?
Do you lay there pretending
there is no Treasure
When indeed
There is gold in the bedroom
And you're not sure how much your gold
Can buy
But you hope and cross your fingers
It will buy you a ticket to heaven
And a cherry cranberry pie.

Eaten on the doorstep
Under blue sky

A cherry cranberry pie

A secret is never not a lie
Cherry
Cherry Cranberry pie