Chicken Claws
Grip the broken end, the splintered bone and nibble gently into spice-softened reptilian skin, tearing into sinew and cartilage. Masticate the morsels of childhood flavors of satisfaction and shame lingering on the round edges of your tongue. The blurred memories of tropical heat sharpen with this salty, sweet, chewy claw. Spit out the bones like baby teeth from a mouth that no longer speaks the Mother Tongue. Eat this alone in the kitchen at night- not one, but the whole pack. Then scrape the pile of broken fingers into the trash hiding all evidence of this delicacy.
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“The rocks are beyond slow, beyond strong, and yet, yielding to a soft, green breath as powerful as a glacier, the mosses wearing away their surfaces grain by grain, bringing them slowly back to sand. There is an ancient conversation going on between mosses and rocks, poetry to be sure. About light and shadow and the drift of continents.”
- from Gathering Moss, by Robin Wall Kimmerer, botonist Something to meditate on as we hustle about the city... “I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
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