TIE Poet of the Month, Wende Crow: One Day I Was Blessed

We are proud to introduce a new feature: The Inquisitive Eater Poet of the Month.  Each month a contemporary poet will present three poems and one personal essay in which food is consumed, passed over, or reckoned with.  Please welcome our inaugural poet for the month of October, Wende Crow. 

One Day I Was Blessed

I woke up forgetting my whole childhood.
So I arrived, and then I went outside
to praise the rocks. I spit cherry pits
at the sun and shook hands with the butcher.
I praised his chops, his wife, and danced all the way
to the aquarium. I praised the fish
and the human faces shimmering
blue and falling in love with belugas.
I met a man who seemed to know
what I was about to say. I praised
what happens, what fades. I left laughing,
I laughed thirty miles. I came home sweating
and played for dinner. I fell in bed,
remembered old damage, and praised.

Wende Crow lives in Atlanta, where she teaches computer literacy to refugees . Her poems and essays have appeared in New Haven Review, Ploughshares, The Bakery, and other journals.