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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