We eat the strands of sunlight that the plants spend their days gathering. We eat the roar of volcanoes, old memories of fires and dinosaur bones, forgotten car trips, purr of cats, chatter of blue jays, breath of smokestacks, and all of our words, even our silence.
We eat earth’s metals – magnesium, zinc and copper – that the plants mine. They find the wells of sweet waters far beneath the soil and draw it up for us.
One day in July the garden calls us to eat spring and summer, sweet, salty, tart, and juicy. After we slice the sunlight into a blue bowl, we pour the sun’s golden liquid that we gathered from the tight fists of olives, and eat until our bellies fairly shine. Then we lick the bowl like it was the sky itself.
year-struck 
Deliciously poetic. Thanks for sharing this piece.
I’m glad you found it tasty.
Your words refresh and fill me. Thank you.
Thank you for reading, Myra.
One of your most transcendent and luscious. Inspired! In fact I think I will post it in my kitchen!
It makes me happy to hear that you enjoyed it.
I love the summer, and your words celebrate it so beautifully. Thank you for this beautiful post.
We must wait many long, cold months for this warm, green world that lasts for just a few months. Spring (if it’s warm) and summer are great gifts.
Beautiful (of course). I hope I also get to eat some summer, soon!
Summer is always yummy.
And with that, I’m going to go eat some of the cherries I bought today.
Cherries are some of my favorites. Bon appetit.
And now I feel even more motivated to eat vegetables and fruit when I think of it as “eating spring and summer” or “slicing sunlight into a bowl” 🙂 Beautifully written post, as usual!
Enjoy your sunlight. 🙂
I am thankful for fruits and vegetables, as I fear the sun would be too spicy to take a bite out of.
Fruits and vegetables can do wonders with sunlight.
As always, your words paint 1,000 pictures!
Thanks so much for reading.
Love your imagination and you ability to express it in words.
Thanks so much for reading.
the veggies and the fungi on the pic look delish, too. 🙂 hello, yearstricken…
Pictures of food really help increase the appetite. 🙂
haha, they do, yearstricken… how we’re so literal and inadequate. 😉 but love your poetic rendition, the abstract, more. it’s rainy season over here, so we’re partaking of the gloom. it’s also yummy. 😉 have a good week ahead….