March 2022
Bio Note: I think I love the process of writing as much as I love cooking and eating…seems what I add, take out, spice up, simmer, let sit overnight possibly makes some interesting creations. Retired after working thirty years as a hospice RN, I now have the energy and time to write, travel, make, and taste new foods. Turning Plow Press published my Oklahoma-based poetry collection, Once Upon a Tar Creek Mining for Voices in 2021.
Upon Eating Sheep Cheese Dumplings and Tripe Soup
you were given
infinite taste buds
a capacity for an ever expanding
universe
why settle for the mundane?
your stomach waits
for exploding galaxies
wake up!
gulp the world
savor everything
these biscuits and gravy
all heavy in my belly
I eat
because I am in Oklahoma
and my sweet fried green tomato mama
in a carbo-loaded gut
lives through me on back roads
home and safe
©2022 Maryann Hurtt
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