Salt

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To spoil someone’s soup,

salt on the tires,

salt beneath wooden forks.

The chef is in love.

Salt and pepper between couples:

on the table,

on the egg.

It draws water from the meat as it fries.

Salt within us,

among all the others,

in tears,

in our tears—

all that salt…

What is needed?

It needs sugar,

needs life,

needs cells

that give,

that taste the sea,

that experience more.

Salt on our skin,

and more people,

more voices,

the honored,

the awarded.

 

March 14, 2025 Bente Amlandt