Dinner at the Haiku

water goblet’s frost

fresh lemon, sliced, tangy

secret diet food

brown cocoa drop slides

outside white porcelain cup

hungry finger seeks

tear glistens, men’s food

chicken breasts, grilled, marked

gristle good enough

her jigsaw dinner

old brown soggy scraps, plated

mother’s daily meal

mandoline music

fingers pluck barbed steel blades

slicing cucumbers

picture courtesy of Carlos Porto’s portfolio