By Anita Nahal
PROMPT — No one noticed ...
No one noticed
that the warm whiff
of deep green mint sauce
in roasted brick red potatoes
speckled with a generous spoonful
of tart-sweet tamarind sauce
and whisked smooth yogurt
sprinkled with a pinch
of ground tangy spices
in an earthen, grounded bowl
you and I bought
at one street shop eons ago,
turns and tosses my dreams.
Anita Nahal, Ph.D., CDP is a professor, poet, short story writer, and children’s writer. She teaches at the University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC. Anita has two books of poetry, one of flash fictions, four books for children, and one edited poetry anthology. Her books are prescribed in a course on multiculturalism at the University of Utretch, the Netherlands. For more: https://anitanahal.wixsite.com/anitanahal