Think of different foods and drinks. Imagine preparing a dish or think of the steps you take when you eat something. What toppings do you add to your pizza, and how do you eat it? I tend to like Hawaiian pizza with ham and pineapple, and I usually eat the crust first. Bring these details to a poem, but I also want you to transform your food and drink into a metaphor, to say something about an emotion or action that people take. See Naomi Nishab Nye’s The Traveling Onion for an example.
I wrote a poem along these lines many years ago, though the metaphor centered around the act of cooking more than the food (tortellini) itself.
How did it go this week?
It was fun! Would love to workshop your cooking poem sometime.
Unless I have something new to bring instead!