Pigeons

1. One stanza 2. Use of third-person point of view 3. The unbroken story-like format; the lines continue as if sentences of a piece of prose 4. The use of transitions to create a chronological order

PIGEON
She pinches the ends of the soaked leaves
around the solid round of meat, onion and garlic like
she’s wrapping a naked infant in a blanket. When the tips
of her hardened fingers turn white from the pressure
she releases her grip and grabs the ladle to drizzle
the thick, red sauce. Contrasting against the blood-like
color of the tomato paste, she realizes how brown and
worn her hands have become. After the wad of cabbage and
hamburger finished hissing, she sank the sharp silver of the
knife into the swell of the dish. Once it had opened up,
she wove her fingers through the fine webs of steam that rose
 reminding her that even though her hands were crude with age,
 they still worked with the delicacy of a silk seamstress.

Reviews

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

I can honestly say that I have never read anything so touching in my life before that appears on the surface to be about food preparation, but this runs deeper than that. This is a woman having an epiphany..........a epiphany that even though her hands are tired and worn they are still as beautiful as they were in days gone by because the beauty lies not on the outside but on the inside. They are beautiful works of art that continue to perform regardless. A masterpiece.

[dieuxsansculte]

Hands are amazing things, and your hands have created something beautiful and enjoyable in this piece of poetry.

I think it must have been the attention to detail that brought this so vividly to life for me, but it seemed just like I was standing there, watching as she worked.

Wonderfully and lovingly done.