There is a word
for mouth and tongue loosening
the skin around squab hearts.
We worked to clean
our plates that had
the embers of fire.
What's left of my
mood but spirit, that is
infinite in appetite.
To eat, is not to
speak beyond your food.
From pages 197-198 of The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison (Grove Press, 2001).