image borrowed from shawna
Serving Girls
ginger bite and tingle
tongue cleansed
eight-piece tempura plate
chopstick scraped, chaotic
crop of hibachi knives
in wait
ingredients outside
tradition
stringed fingers, forgotten
acorn hair worn straight
beneath the Asian hood—
guise of sliced geisha
Shawna McAllister
Posted over on her site Rosemary Mint
Listed as #24 over at dVerse Poets-OLN35
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