By: Jacqueline McGinnis-Feazle
Maiheunia, living alone on your mountain,
You will know your knife is sharp when it
Held between thumb and index fingers, dices
a whole white onion and
half an unripe pepper and
forgets it has cheese and
is joined in its madness and
separates Chollas, Opuntia, and
compensates with butter and
extra milk, coffee and
forgets it is bleeding and
sprouts areolas and
makes a tart pop when exiting skin and — and this is the true test of a sharp knife:
Can cut cleanly through a prickly pear,
As easily through a thumb knuckle and
Find You
Fruit in a desert
The sweet and flesh-red pith of time. Yes, this is the test of a truly sharp knife.
January 20th, 2018, nine days before the first smell of spring.