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Silverware
I admire the bodies of spoons
Generous, spacious and deep
like full moons
they illuminate my insides
With miso granules, vitamin rich tides,
seaweed soup.
I savor the decisive shapes of forks
Sectioned into wands, poignant
straightened torques
of rationalized emotion
Warm, weightless broth,
nut-salad potion
concoction.
I grip tightly the edges of knives
Aggressive, sharp
individual lives,
They tear muscle into beef head
finely sliced,
sharp and serrated
rose-nail pricks.
Cartooning the Rebel-Artist
Thin, attractive, devious in a black-sports coat
with folds and criss-crossed chains and a long
day’s paint job designing the front of his pants,
I ask: “Do you want to come to an art gallery
opening?” Flattered he nods. “Yeah, maybe.”
A telephone ring steals the rebel-artist away
while I patiently sway and wait--mindlessly
prate--and remind myself to assert my stance.
Pride re-discovered, conveniently covered--
“I am late! 461 Broome street,” I initiate. He
takes a bite with a tight hello and appears an
hour later free from nervousness or fuss—
able to cater to the embarrassment I felt upon
arriving at the what I was surprised to discover
was a tribute to Walt Disney. We paw with
mild claws the idea of spontaneous sexuality
until he had to leave for another I wish I could
have met. It is now time to applause brave me
for having moved from stage one (eye contact) to
two (conversation) and to three (please join me).
Farrah Sarafa is currently a graduate student in Comparative Literature at
Columbia University. She has been reading and writing poetry since I
was very young. She was the second place winner of the Marjorie
Rappaport Poetry competition, (University of Michigan) spring 2003
for “Olive” and that same year “Paul Kutner” was chosen for
publication by an American Library of Poetry” publication. This
year she has published two poems with Tablets multicultural journal,
won second place for “To My Brother” in the 6th Annual Chistell
Writing competition and published “Palestinian Fig” with both
Arabesques and the Litchfield Review. She has also published various
war poems with Poetic.injustice.net and others.
Email: Farrah Sarafa
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