In Your Kitchen

In Your Kitchen

I love to watch you in your kitchen

as you fuss about with the carefully crafted skills of a TV chef.

The ease with which you take the packets

and the tins, the sachets and the fresh ingredients

and blend them into a divine feast is spellbinding.

You make it look effortless as you smile and chat, relaxed.

I remember the first loaf you brought to me;

fresh baked and kneaded by your strong and pornographic hands.

I savoured every last crumb, made the wheat flavour burst over and over and over

as I swallowed the love you offered and longed for more.

I love to sit with you in your kitchen,

as you serve an evening meal,

with the dying summer sun setting on another day

and Oscar at our feet; always in the wrong place.

Or as we sup strong brewed coffee and chat,

turning over the morsels of our lives, sharing our vision

for our thrice baked recipe of a future promised.

I love to work in your kitchen,

playing your sous chef, slicing and chopping

and clearing and cleaning and washing.

It feels a privilege to be there for you,

to share your space in that bright place,

despite the overflowing of gadgets and utensils,

full capacious cupboards, and generously bulging fridge.

In a new and strange way I find it all so beautifully reassuring,

so fulfilling,

and so very loving,

being in your kitchen.

 

05/09/13

Author's Note

Reviews

[Kevin Dean]

I loved to true love and sexual conetations.

[Lyn Anderson]

Wow. This one is so great. At the end of the day it is the little things that make us fall in love, and stay that way. It would seem this is a real love, for someone very special.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you KLG

[MsJewel]

A unique and beautiful poem that just oozes warmth and love - yes much like a kitchen. This is a terrific love poem!

:) Julie

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you so much Julie. Much love emirates from the kitchen where putting time into providing for someone else can be such a sensual and loving act with giving at its core.

[Lydia Shutter]

What a homey and loving atmosphere you have created here with your words. To watch a chef in action...someone who loves to cook....is to watch the creation of a work of art. To be able to help create that piece of art is wonderful. You obviously have a great relationship with this cook....and the warmth of your relationship warmed my heart while reading this. Lydi**

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Think you have captured it well Lydi, many thanks.

[zainul]

Coincided with my recent interest in online cooking demonstration mostly from Youtube.
I just shifted from a demonstration to WC and found your list of writing where the lovely lady was sitting with
great posture.
You had been there in the kitchen for too long and enjoyed the spicy atmosphere with pornographic flavor.
Wonderful work,John.
I congratulate you for taking the writers to the amazing kitchen.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you so much Zainul

[zainul]

You are always welcome John.:)

[Leslie Philibert]

This is a really good poem, one of the best I have ever read from John, detailled, well observed and written with thought and care...very good !

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you so much Leslie!

[Kristin Lee]

I too was struck by the phrase "pornographic hands" very descriptive and fun. Definitely different but draws us in to a very homey kitchen, a place that feels warm, inviting and everything a kitchen should be.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thank you Kirstin

[Frieda P]

'Pornographic hands', ha that must have been some loaf of holy bread..lol I quite like this one John, definitely something different from your pen, now I feel as though I want to sit and have a cuppa in that homey kitchen. Well done!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Glad you liked it my lady. Just waiting for friends to arrive so just popping in!

[KAOlmsted]

The kitchen is, indeed, the heart of the home. I am in goofy love with this poem, John...

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I have always loved the home and you are right the kitchen is the engine, the heart of the home. Thank you Kimmer.

[KAOlmsted]

My pleasure, John.

[Pryde Foltz]

Wow, that was a love poem if I ever read one. I was riveted to the page, really. Really good to have you back.