It’s Friday again. We are officially in Spring.
I am participating in the FMF, writing challenge.
Write for five minutes flat every Friday and post your entry on your blog and on the Facebook group FMF. You don’t have to be on “fesses-bouc” as we chide in French, to participate.
Just go to the Landing page
And follow instructions.
Here is my contribution to the prompt.
❀ A good measure of love in all things, of tolerance, compassion, kindness, joy and peace.
❀ A book by Margareth Forster, one of my favourite authors,
How to Measure a Cow. The difficulty and consequences of shutting out the past.
if you would like to know more click here
❀ A poem/recipe I wrote in 2015, on Blackberry and Apple Pie.
Blackberries
Pick
the blackberries from brambles
along
a meadow in late August.
Brush
away giddy wasps that whip around.
Clothe
yourself with long sleeves, jeans and socks,
although
the weather is blazing hot.
Or
be prepared to tweeze thorns from lacerated skin.
Take
a walking stick with a curved handle
to
reach those juicy nut size ones at the top
Long
legs and long arms cannot be found in a shop.
Wear
a cap and sunglasses to fight off the glare.
Don't
forget to lift those leaves
where
excellence shrinks from the pick.
Bend
down to scoop up the apples to balance
the
taste. They are easier to free from nature;
they
fall from the tree.
Simmer
the two combined, with nutmeg
and
cinnamon. A whiff signals
Sunday
dessert as it coils up the stairs.
Cut
up the soft butter into dice:
clack
clack on the side
of
the enamel bowl.
Sieve
the flour like snow
falling
onto yellow clay.
Grip
the sticky cubes with cool fingers.
Crumb
fat and flour together, roll
the
paste between forefinger and thumb.
Lift
lightly through spread fingers,
like
a prayer, an offering to the god of sweets.
Like
fluffy feathers dancing between open palms.
Knead
and roll out a circle of pastry.
A
blue and white striped egg cup holds up the tent.
Stab
it ten times to release the steam,
and
place it snug in the oven.
©Susan Baury Rouchard
Have a pleasant weekend. Please react, comment and I will be sure to reply. Sharing is what brings Peace into this world.
Thank you for reading.
Susan Baury Rouchard