Love is in the air and I say love with cheese... gruyère and emmenthal brie, parmeggiano crocks for the oven, red and gray a bag of onions and bay leaves plucked from nanna's garden last summer a half-baked baguette and chicken stock & thyme and while you're on the slopes I play my music—the same song over and again but you're not here so it won't drive you crazy and as the soup simmers and I brown the bread and grate the cheese you come in smelling of the mountain you perch on the countertop and tell me about the lessons you gave today and I feel like a mom again and in this delicious moment love is in the air
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a pearl in this diamond world … Josephine LoRe has published two collections: ‘Unity’ and the Calgary Herald Bestseller ‘The Cowichan Series’. Her words have been read on stage, put to music, danced to, and integrated into visual art. They appear in anthologies and literary journals across nine countries. https://www.josephinelorepoet.com/