Left or right hands can

bring the raw to the real while

perhaps not the same

color is often

how we decide and how we

judge food and humor

words are difficult

to describe the tastes and names

of life's blood and pain

imagery: a rotting

tomato at the bottom of a well, half eaten

on one side by worms (Dr John Alvis circa 1990)

flowers come in shapes

that often bear no resemblance

to anything aliveat the end there will

be only joy in the finish but

not in the leaving