After cutting open hundreds, thousands
of avocados, I marvel as my friend Kyra
cuts off the top. Slices it right off.
And I stare at her, at the knife, at the tip
of the avocado listing on the cutting board.
How easily she scoops out the creamy green flesh.
How simply she cuts more rounds around the pit.
All these years, I’ve sliced avocados lengthwise.
It’s as if I’ve just learned a new word for yes.
As if the sun itself just rose right here in the kitchen.
It takes so little to open us, to help us
see everything new. Even that prayer I pray
the same way. These hands. This common fruit.
Moments like this, where life gives us a new way to behold it, to engage with it, is what makes it all worthwhile,
so exactly so … oh the unfolding! thank, May Hem!
That is incredibly interesting. I feel this exact way when I see people cut fruits and vegetables different too. Watermelon is a good example.
soooo true about the watermelon! And the mango … a couple of these interesting fruits and vegetables that have so much to show us …