Our host today for the 17th day of VerseLove at http://www.ethicalela.com is Kratijah, who lives in Mauritius, where she teaches English Language Acquisition and Language & Literature at Le Bocage International School. She inspires us to write poems about our kitchens in free verse, and you can read her full prompt here.
Hidden Signals
on the wall by the French doors
in my kitchen hangs a
framed notebook paper drawing
of a rolling pin
its heavy wooden body
completely out of orientation
with the writing at one end
as if the artist got bored
or hungry
or murderous
in some seminar long ago
in some other language
but rolling pins and art
and French doors
speak in a
universal female tongue
so I have a hunch
why my mother
gave me this framed
picture in 1985
when I married my
first husband
she never liked him
Common Threads 