Dinner Under the Influence of Late Evening

  noodles slippery as sex

  rest

  exhausted from their

  boiling water dance

  tomatoes

  red tomatoes

  saucy as harlots

  relish their flavorful dominance

  and their attractiveness to both

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  eye and tongue

  they lure the fork first

  red flags to its bull horns

  pignoli peek out

  unsure

  of their tight nut

  influence

  still virginal in the oil

  - Kat Isacson