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Two Poems

By Nancy Raham

  • Shopping, Cooking and Creativity

  • Writing grocery lists
  • of the best buys
  • and spending more money
  • to save.
  • Finding security
  • in stock-piled shelves
  • of spaghetti sauce, kidney
  • beans and cream of mushroom soup.
  • Creativity seeping into ways
  • of stretching a quarter kilo of beef.
  • Men don’t think of this.
  • Can grab lunch
  • someone else has made.
  • I wish my mother
  • was here to cook
  •  instead.

  • I Lie Watching You

  • In the dusk
  • of morning your ritual
  • of getting ready for work
  • and our parting kiss.
  • A year ago
  • singleness
  • an accepted state
  • with individual visions
  • of our own futures.
  • Now our lives
  • wound tightly together
  • turn past years
  • into a day.
  • Time swept aside
  • by the reality
  • of your kiss.

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  • Nancy Raham
  • Issue 039
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