Take 5 spoons of yoghurt, white and sour.
And add half a single-serve pot of sweetened, berry-flavoured yoghurt.
Gently swirl to create a purple-white canvas.
Top with a handful of pre-washed blueberries – little gems of sweetness that will burst with every spoonful of still-sour ‘ghurt. (You’ll know because you’ll start eating.)
When it’s still too sour,
take a tiny tangerine…
Focus on your fingers.
You’ll spend so much time
peeling the skin,
removing white fibrous veins,
revealing glossy orange flesh,
that you’ll be somewhere else entirely.
It’s something a paper cup of
grape-flavoured soda,
sweet enough to shame real grapes,
and bright enough to cause fruit to blush,
cannot, in it’s soulless convenience,
touch.
Because as you sit on top
of the kitchen counter,
looking at
sweet shiny oranges,
and gemstone dark blues,
on sour swirls of purple against white,
in your favourite metal bowl and
your gold-and-pink spoon…
You’ll notice
how beautiful
you’ve made
the food in your bowl.
For a moment, you realise
that this is what it’s like
to feed the eyes,
the body,
and the soul.
