Poet of the Month: ‘Today’s Featured Meal,’ by Darren Lyons

Under leaf and footfall, in the alley’s
otherwise quiet, Rat smelled the divine
sweat-reek of a corner-bistro bag.

           [Rat wrote the book on gourmet
           dumpster-diving for rodents,
           and after each meal, by his last bite,
           he’d know whether he’d write
           about it—on his blog—
           for days or not.]

And now, here, tearing in,
he found, below the bread,
moistened by a bitter juice-mix of the house red
and negroni drops, the tenderest rabbit,
braised in Oregon pinot gris and rosemary
over gorgonzola polenta. What a treat!
He ate—savored the waste—searched for words…

Darren Lyons is The Inquisitive Eater's Poet of the Month for April 2018.

Darren Lyons is currently earning his MFA in poetry at the The New School. His work has been featured in Chronogram, Stonesthrow Review, and on The Best American Poetry Blog.

Featured image via Flickr.