HOW MUCH I DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE ORDINARY
BY KIT KENNEDY
For instance, dinner plates.
It amazes me how a plate takes
whatever is placed upon
without argument
without treatise on nutrients
say, spinach rich in flavonoids
and antioxidants.
looking at any object, the personal seeps in
I can’t cook
spinach without olive oil and garlic -union of bulb and leaf.
As I stir
I observe I am the hand
of my father.
how the non sequitur is quick-step and glue
Cooking takes us here to there.
How do any of us distinguish color
sun creates or understand
chlorophyll’s trick with photosynthesis
wringing energy from light.
Or, for that matter, the confluence
of st