IT'S WHAT I LIKE BEST ABOUT YOU

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In the humid morning, we make almond pancakes

place them on plates next to soft cubes of sugary rhubarb.

This is the beginning of our life’s mythologies

 

that we tell ourselves are real, not merely mythologies

but recipes, like the one we use for making pancakes

from the worn book stained with the juice of rhubarb.

 

And when was it you said that you didn’t like rhubarb?

I’ll add this to the beliefs that will become mythologies

and search for a new way to make morning pancakes.

 

Pancakes and rhubarb—we are both attracted to mythologies.

 

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BIO: 

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Anne Graue is the author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet (Woodley Press, 2020) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press, 2017). Her work can be read in Sundress Publications Best Dressed Blog, Verse Daily, Poet Lore, Spoon River Poetry Review, Gargoyle, Unbroken Journal, River Heron Review, and elsewhere. She is a poetry editor for The Westchester Review.