Sustenance
Like the squawking of a small friendly bird
the voice of the tiny woman at the meat counter
offers up tasty morsels to those she feeds
from her perch on a two-step stool
behind the glass case.
8/1/19
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I have such a strong visual of this bird-like woman.
I’d be interested to hear what you saw. Because this poem is based on a real person who is very familiar to me over years of shopping!
In my mind’s eye I saw someone who looked petite and somewhat frail but who had a lot of energy and carried herself with an air of self-assurance.
She is actually a very short very rotund woman who really does need the step stool to reach over the counter, and she has a very distinctive voice, but you are right about the air of self-assurance. And she is very good-humored.