In the Details; Scenes from the Journey, vol. 22, no. 19

In the Details

Be specific.

Reference the details of the day,

of your life, of everything.

The squirrel, though not exotic,

is representative of your moments.

Ditto the tiny soon-to-bloom

branchlets of flowers on the Japanese tree lilac.

Don't generalize about "lunch" or "dinner".

Instead say the annual hamburger

dressed in Korean flavours.

Say burrata, spread on

home-baked flatbreads,

with oven-roasted cherry tomatoes

whose caramelized sugars surprise the burrata

with tart and sweet.

Say cranking the oven to 500 degrees

at 7 in the morning

to bake the mongrel seeded sourdough loaf

that rose all night in the cool of the fridge,

wrapped in its linen shroud.

Be specific.

Love is in the details.

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