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A grocery list for M. Davis
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April 7, 2022. 9:14AM.
- farm-fresh eggs, with nubbly blue shells that crack in divine geometry
- butter, churned and smacked and salted by an Amish neighbor
- flour, finely milled, puffing scattered clouds from a torn corner
- sugar, spilling crystalline and pure as last month's snow
- salt, carrying the taste of the sea and the smell of nothing
- rhubarb, slender and stringy, with neon bulbs and bloody tips
- strawberries, small as my thumbnail, ripe enough to stain my canvas bag
- lemons, bright and waxy, sour enough to find my scratches
- a pie dish, deep enough to hold a dream, but not so deep I lose myself
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This little poem was written for Mackenzie Davis's "I'd Read Your Grocery List" Challenge. Join the fun here:
About the Creator
The steps to losing a child
Step One: Lose a child. Not what anyone wants to happen and nothing you can do to change it, but you can go through steps to becoming happy again. You can go through steps to loving again. You can go through steps to become a new you because after losing a child you will never be the same person you once were.
By Tabitha Hinkley6 days ago in Fiction
Comments (26)
This list makes sense now, you are a Pastry Chef . Congratulations On Top Story !!!🎉🎊
Mouth watering… though a reluctant cook, I grew up on stewed, home grown rhubarb, custard and cream… mmmmm!
Delicious and luscious poetry
Mmm, I want that pie. Those ingredients sound so lush.
You sold me on everything on your list. Although I have no use for Rhubarb, I would find one after the lovely description. Happy belated TS!
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Beautiful list!!! Congratulations on Top Story!!!❤️❤️💕
Love the ‘Amish neighbour’ Really clever and well written
This is the most gorgeous grocery list I've ever read! Imagery off the charts with keen observations. Great work Suze!
Oh yay! Top Story!! 🥳
Congrats on the TS.
Congratulations on your Top Story🎉♥️
Love this and sorry only just getting round to reading it now, Suze! Awesome work, Suze and congrats on a well-deserved Top Story!
This is amazing! Congratulations on Top Story!
WOOOHOOOO I’m so so excited to see this on the top story page. Big congratulations!! This was definitely one of my favourite recent reads💛
That was just lovely. Well done.
I smiled at the part about strawberries. Very well written!
I loved the lemon line, sour enough to find my scratches, that was excellent! Well done
Perfect and so beautifully done. This is the amszingness of writer meeting chef! Wonderful 🤍
Oh wow, just wow. Beautiful in every way, Suze. And such unique descriptions, like, my mouth is watering AND my brain is firing with new connections. My favorites: farm-fresh eggs, with nubbly blue shells that crack in divine geometry strawberries, small as my thumbnail, ripe enough to stain my canvas bag lemons, bright and waxy, sour enough to find my scratches And that last line, omg. I feel like I'm getting an intimate look into your baker self, perhaps at the beginning of the journey. It's truly gorgeous: "a pie dish, deep enough to hold a dream, but not so deep I lose myself"
Oh this was so divine! I especially loved the salt and pie dish!
Great list, all the staples to make just about anything. You guys are weird.
This is awesome. Every single line was perfect, wow. I especially loved the ending!!
Suze 'Q' ~ Can I get this to go with a Dollop of 'Happy Place' Giggles ~ 'j'
Beautiful