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The Peasant Declares His Love - by Émile Roumer

{ Poem }

High-yellow of my heart, with breasts like tangerines,
/ you taste better to me than eggplant stuffed with crab,
/ you are the tripe…

The Floral Apron - by Marilyn Chin

{ Poem }

The woman wore a floral apron around her neck,
/ that woman from my mother’s village
/ with a sharp cleaver in her hand.
/ She…

Unjust Praise - by Ghirmai Yohannes

{ Poem }

In the beginning
/ The spirit moving
/ Upon the face of the waters
/ And in the breaking waves
/ Tasted salt
/
/ And I see fields of it
/ Drying…

Modern Secrets - by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

{ Poem }

Last night I dreamt in Chinese.
/ Eating Yankee shredded wheat
/ I said it in English
/ To a friend who answered
/ In monosyllables:
/ All of which…

As the child looks on - by Saradha Soobrayen

{ Poem }

his mother pulls the linen
/ from the cord.
/ She flaps each sheet,
/ folds each vest.
/ Collars are starched,
/ skirts are dressed.
/ She is spit, she is…

Like a Beacon - by Grace Nichols

{ Poem }

In London
/ every now and then
/ I get this craving
/ for my mother’s food
/ I leave art galleries
/ in search of plantains
/ saltfish/sweet potatoes
/
/ I need this…

Guid Taste - by Scottish anonymous

{ Poem }

Tae get your juices gaun we’ve
/ the brawest Indian food fur ye.
/ Goan specialities
/ caller oot o Scotland’s seas.
/ King prawns hottered wi…

Blaeberry Mou - by William Soutar

{ Poem }

The flitterin faces come doun the brae
/ And the baskets gowd and green;
/ And nane but a blindie wud speer the day
/ Whaur…

Milk - by Donny O’Rourke

{ Poem }

Your custom often
/ when the house was still
/
/ to brew milky coffee
/ and reminisce.
/
/ Child care experts would have frowned
/ on my late hours,
/
/ The bitter…

from A hyakuin renga in summer - by Alec Finlay

{ Poem }

shrivelled little figs
/ that never made it
/ to the table
/
/ swirling a late cup of milky tea
/ what she’d like…

A Child’s Calendar of Feasts - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

September
/ Peel some hazelnuts while they’re still green. Our grapes can hang another day.
/
/ October
/ Take these walnuts next door. Tell them we…

The Picnic - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

In a little rainy mist of white and grey
we sat under an old tree,
drank tea toasts to the powdery mountain,
undrunk got merry, played catch
with the empty flask

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