Lynda Webb

FRIED SHRIMP AND LIFE

I have merely arranged the atoms—
calling on my talents, I whip solid potatoes into heavenly
white clouds of deliciousness,
and, in the lab of the kitchen, raw shrimp becomes food 
the Gods would only deem for them,
but I serve it to you, by merely arranging the temperature,
the list of loving ingredients, dashing in hope and dreams,
topped with extravagant saltiness, sass and silliness,
to fill you up, send you off, let you dream, build your world—
and all I did was merely arrange a few atoms today.

A GREAT BLUE HERON

Lynda Gerdin Webb has a MA from the University of Texas at El Paso where she studied fiction with Raymond Carver. Her fiction and poetry has been published in About Place Journal, Flora Fiction Literary Magazine, Big Bend Literary Magazine, and SouthShore Review.

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