In 1999, like most baby millennials, our parents dictated the family television. In my Midwestern home, I woke up to Katie Couric and Matt Lauer’s news reports on Today before school. After I returned home, the ritutal continued. As mom prepared dinner, usually a meatloaf, buttery mashed potatoes, and a side of green beans– I’d […]
The following poem analogizes the developing fetus, embryo and baby to its corresponding fruit or vegetable. It elucidates various evolutionary milestones encountered from within the womb. Baby Fruit Conceiving of you, my Seedling. Has been a blessing And an eye-opening journey Through vapors of nausea and cream We have become a […]
As a kid, I religiously peeled the skins off grapes first. A bitter foil to the soft fleshened interior to follow, I bit them brief and swallowed whole as a sort of drum roll. That stark of a distinction between the skin and its grape body hadn’t existed again until this day… several decades later. […]
