Hello all-

It is officially National Poetry Month & I am so thrilled to be writing & poet-ing & community-ing along with you all. This month, I will be writing with Elma’s Heart Circle - a beautiful collective of women writers founded by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor. We send poems to each every day during April. It is like a wave of words. It is blessing and balm.

All month, I will be posting poem excerpts and sharing writing prompts for you to kick off your own writing practice. Hope you will join me & keep those words flowing.

Prompt:

Write about a meal you loved. Who were you with? What did you eat? What did you talk about? Give us every detail of the meal. Did it shape or change you? Did it stay with you? Why? Write it down. Share it with us.

Poem 1/30 | excerpt

Celi pulls up her mask

between bites. Claims

how proud she is

to be Middle-Eastern.

Our food is good

good food. She says.

& Miriam nods hungry like.

But says she is nervous

to eat indoors with all

the other hungry mouths.

Asks if we will be ok.

Not enough answers

but all & everything

is good right now.

is right good now.

now is right. is good,

right? is it good right

now? is now good?

or right? now? is it?