Everyday Dishes

 Everyday Dishes

Everyday dishes

venous here and there chips

drabbled by much machine washing

but sturdy still

familiar to her fingers

Secondhand dishes

unabashed so many before had

sopped yolks swabbed menorrheal

jus of beef

thick coffee in thick mugs

New dishes

occasionally catch her eye and

newly acquired kept aside set solely

for delicate occasions

hand wash only of course

Peter W. Yaremko

I have taught college and corporate writing classes and am the author of three non-fiction books: A Light from Within; Saints and Poets, Maybe; and Fat Guy in a Fat Boat. My novel, Billy of the Tulips, was published in 2018 by TouchPoint Press, and my poetry has appeared in Dual Coast Magazine, Poetry Quarterly, and Allegro Poetry Magazine.