So much more than chicken and vegetables,
your kitchen, your chopping,
watching, stirring.
What about your life experience?
It all goes in the pot you bring me
to heal my illness and cheer my spirits.
You bring me love-made soup with all
life’s ingredients, covering all bases.
And body and soul respond!
It’s all in the intention.
The recipe requires we simmer it first,
measure our life in tidy sips, then
bring to the boil of passion and
cook until done.
A whole new meaning to ‘love-making’
Susan P. Blevins, an ex-pat Brit, lived in Italy for twenty-six years, traveled the world extensively, and has now settled in Houston, Texas, where she is enjoying writing stories and poems based on her travels and adventures. She had a weekly column on food in a European newspaper while living in Rome, and has published various articles on gardens and gardening while living in northern New Mexico, before moving to Houston. Since living in Houston she has been published in various literary magazines, both in hard copy and online. Her passions are classical music, gardening, nature, animals (cats in particular), reading and of course, writing. She has written a journal since she was about nine. She is a true bibliophile and has books in every room of her house.