“Where Does Such Tenderness Come From?”

Kim Addonizio, “The Singing”, Tell Me

Ceramic Sculpture by Hitomi Murakami

food as a metaphor for existence, food as a love language, food as just food (poetry recommendations)

September Tomatoes by Karina Borowicz

Ode to Tomatoes by Pablo Neruda

I Ask My Grandmother If We Can Make Lahmajoun by Gregory Djanikian

Here, There Are Blueberries by Mary Szybist

The Orange by Wendy Cope

Oranges by Gary Soto

From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

Persimmons by Li-Young Lee

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

Self-Portrait as So Much Potential by Chen Chen

Chasing Utopia by Nikki Giovanni

In the Kitchen by Chen Jun

Food by Brenda Hillman

Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu we love. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I love you. I want us both to eat well by Christopher Citro

Baked Goods by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Bread by W. S. Merwin

buy me a coffee

— Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father

[text ID: My writing was all about you; all I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.]

collage work by paw grabowski (oejerum)

Laodamia, George William Joy 

self sabotage

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[text ID: I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."]

Andrés Cerpa, The Vault

My Mother: Demonology by Kathy Acker