Nothing is more intimate than preparing food for someone:<\/p>\n
It becomes part of them, muscle, bone, skin, sinew<\/p>\n
I imagine your shoulders working<\/p>\n
muscles powering<\/p>\n
your hands transforming food<\/p>\n
into an offering<\/p>\n
molding\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 crafting\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fashioning<\/p>\n
preparing the food preparing<\/p>\n
yourself<\/p>\n
Eat of this bread it is my body<\/p>\n
and shall be yours.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Will you sit back\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 contented\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 watching<\/p>\n
watching my eating<\/p>\n
or is the nourishment in the sharing<\/p>\n
the food not a sculpture but a dance<\/p>\n
Will you dance with me arms entwining<\/p>\n
placing single morsels on the tongue<\/p>\n
a divine secular communion, living hand to mouth.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Lover cannibal\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 unsure where fingers end<\/p>\n
where flesh melts into food, when food becomes flesh<\/p>\n
consuming and becoming, eating and being eaten<\/p>\n
hungry, hungry, ravenous but not greedy<\/p>\n
not giving, not taking<\/p>\n
sharing\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 partaking<\/p>\n
devouring but not destroying.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A kiss ends at the lips, or soon after<\/p>\n
But pressing your hands to my lips,<\/p>\n
taking them to my mouth, in my mouth<\/p>\n
licking my lips, your fingers<\/p>\n
do not stifle but<\/p>\n
nourish and<\/p>\n
sustain me.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u00a91991 Michael Singman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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