first Easter get-together
Napowrimo #10: celebrate! Write about a birthday party, a wedding, a baptism — any kind of celebration where you were with family or friends or both. Write about the colors you remember, the sounds (and how they made you feel) and the tastes you remember from any of those events. Did these things make you feel good? Did you experience any new foods? Did you meet any new people? Read Write Poem prompt here.
Over the orange salad bowl,
stir pig’s ears, sliced cucumber,
roast meat, and did you know,
he got baptized yesterday.
(I stirred the dish, confusing
Easter with Christmas.
Easter ’s more important.
Everybody knows that.)
Oh wow, I imagine Bryan
being blessed & anointed.
Marie’s genuinely pleased.
(I’m still pagan, didn’t make it
to catechism. Will I ever?)
Somebody’s sulky & sat
eating in the garden.
Whose dog’s on a leash?
Why did you bring the dog?
(Don’t ask. Lovers’ quarrel
on parents’ anniversary.)
It’s getting really crowded,
Happy Easter! Help yourselves.
Beef & potato stew scooped
over rice, yummilicious!
Why not eating Waldorf salad?
Marie made cocoa jelly!
Everybody loves but
isn’t that for Christmas?
Switch hats. It’s Easter &
stop thinking it’s Christmas.
