Rommy shares this quote from Joana Walsh's essay "My Life As A Goddard Movie" as inspiration for our poems ~~
“The most expensive garment you’ll ever own is your own flesh.”
Thanksgiving arrives the way it always does
the clatter of dishes, stories we tell
first born carves the turkey
steam rises in praise, laughter shakes loose
we pass plates and memories with the quiet understanding
being here is never guaranteed
The soft ache in my bones reminds me
how long I've lived in this skin
paid for with every stumble, scar
every winter settled in my marrow
every determined spring pulling me up
Costly as my flesh has been
it has carried me all the way
to this warm room, this crowded table
this moment where love exists
in the simplest ways, passed hand to hand
like biscuits