Take 5 spoons of yoghurt, white and sour.
And add half a single-serve pot of sweetened, berry-flavoured yoghurt.
Gently swirl to create a purple-white canvas.
Top with a handful of pre-washed blueberries â little gems of sweetness that will burst with every spoonful of still-sour âghurt. (Youâll know because youâll start eating.)
When itâs still too sour,
take a tiny tangerineâŚ
Focus on your fingers.
Youâll spend so much time
peeling the skin,
removing white fibrous veins,
revealing glossy orange flesh,
that youâll be somewhere else entirely.
Itâs something a paper cup of
grape-flavoured soda,
sweet enough to shame real grapes,
and bright enough to cause fruit to blush,
cannot, in itâs soulless convenience,
touch.
Because as you sit on top
of the kitchen counter,
looking at
sweet shiny oranges,
and gemstone dark blues,
on sour swirls of purple against white,
in your favourite metal bowl and
your gold-and-pink spoonâŚ
Youâll notice
how beautiful
youâve made
the food in your bowl.
For a moment, you realise
that this is what itâs like
to feed the eyes,
the body,
and the soul.
