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The glass plate,
cobalt blue
bears a thousand
proud scratches;
no longer gleaming
like an icy lake in February
reflecting a cloudless sky;
instead it bares its blue chest
with pride;
each small scar
of knives and forks
recalls a meal;
family around a small
wooden
table
a lake of kitchen history,
measured in steaming rice,
in hot peppers
wine and hard bread.
The glass plate,
as blue as sapphires,
but no longer as lustrous
still maintains
svelte curves.
It stares up at you
and begs you to recall
meals with noisy children,
parents now gone,
friends drinking tea,
the clatter of silverware,
the music of conversation,
the magic of shared meals.
You look down
and see yourself
reflected in its
fine spiderweb of scratches;
a blue woman
in a scratched
cobalt blue
glass plate.
