for every banana

for every banana

peeled in pajamas

by a friendly samaritan

of a taxi-less reader

to the 4am flight

through lightless darkness

jacket over jumping

monkey fleece

we offer a loud:

all praises!

for every nectarine

savoured in sweetness

by a roving poet

with friendly mud-builders

through the windy mesa

and iron hot springs

in jackets of fleece

we offer a chordant:

all praises!

for each native plum

plucked improvisationally

by rollicking dog-lovers

with beloved painters

over treeline rooftops

with grins surcease

we offer an ululating:

all praises!

MRE (meal ready to eat)

Collapsing

stomach

on itself

impatient for results

What will become

of lunch

when supply chains

if they

when it

Thursday’s layoffs

I’ll buy

more 15-year

ready-to-eats

2026

they’ll expire

by then we may know

IMUNURI prompt: spiels on meals

For this week's prompt, try a thought experiment around creative writing and eating. You could

• Try drafting a poem while hungry, before you eat a meal.
• Try drafting a poem immediately after a satisfying meal
• Skip a meal and write a poem
• Try more than one of these and juxtapose the poems, or weave them together somehow.

labels: eating, poem, your name