Simmering on a back burner
Evaporating
Diminishing
To concentrate flavor
And thicken the broth or sauce
Aging, chronic illness, plus the pandemic
Reducing me
Refining is painful
Simmering on the back burner is no fun
Pruning makes me sore
Yet
Hopeful to become
More truly who I am
A thicker, more flavorful me
Let it continue
Grow and stretch
Let the trials
The isolation
Turn me into
A highly concentrated glaze
A viscous
Honey or roux
Julie is currently living in the Pacific Northwest. She has traveled and lived for many years abroad mostly in China, Central Asia and India. She brings the wealth of these experiences to her writing.
Being ignorant of Emmett’s experience, I was horrified by the story. It overfilled my senses with the global collective of the beyond-painful memories of the historical records of oppression and abuses perpetrated by humans. It easily could have pushed me into a ‘useless emotional state,’ yet I was surprisingly and thankfully impressed by the film’s excellence as an art form.
