Recipe

Recipe

 

love is a bouillon cube

dissolving with each kiss

each holding in desperation

each word spoken

lovingly

then violently

then frozenly

into memory soup

that chips the tooth

of experience.

 

 

erin-cilberto

3/16/25

Reviews

[Amanda Reynolds]

Wow, this brings me back to my youth, and I'm sure so many other can relate to your seemingly simple (yet not) metaphor.

[Soren]

Such an evolution of love in a recipe as it slips in undetected as a rock that chips the tooth of experience. A rather sophisticated poem in its simplicity.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Oooh love the metaphors
A kissy romantic cook reminds me of a French cook in his country kitchen
Making soup for his lover who never appears

[redzone]

what should we call this soup, Jacob?? 'Chipped Tooth Soup'?? Perhaps 'Bad Memory Soup'? Many names can be given to a bouillon soup that can be drunk with a straw. But that is a 'recipe' for "No Love Soup", which lacks flavor and hardy nutrients necessary for the quality of life.
-Curt