The Mistress of Spices
“But his whole face was asking Have you yet and When will you.
Therefore tonight I prepare myself with ginger for my first foray into America.
For as you know, when I woke in this land the store was already around me, its hard, protective shell. The spices too surrounded me, a shell of smells and voices. And that other shell, my aged body pressing its wrinkles into me. Shell within shell within shell, and inmost of all my heart beating like a bird.
Today I plan to stretch my wings, to crack perh...aps these shells and emerge into the infinite spaces of the outside world. It frightens me a little. I must admit this.
And so I call on ginger.
Root of gnarled wisdom, ada in your hide of banded brown, help me in this my seeking. I weigh your speckled solidness in the hollow of my palm. Wash you three times in lime water. Slice you translucent-thin as the curtain between waking and dream.
Adrak ginger, be with me.
I drop the slices in a pan of boiling water, watch them rise and sink, rise and sink, in a slow whirl.MoreLess
Therefore tonight I prepare myself with ginger for my first foray into America.
For as you know, when I woke in this land the store was already around me, its hard, protective shell. The spices too surrounded me, a shell of smells and voices. And that other shell, my aged body pressing its wrinkles into me. Shell within shell within shell, and inmost of all my heart beating like a bird.
Today I plan to stretch my wings, to crack perh...aps these shells and emerge into the infinite spaces of the outside world. It frightens me a little. I must admit this.
And so I call on ginger.
Root of gnarled wisdom, ada in your hide of banded brown, help me in this my seeking. I weigh your speckled solidness in the hollow of my palm. Wash you three times in lime water. Slice you translucent-thin as the curtain between waking and dream.
Adrak ginger, be with me.
I drop the slices in a pan of boiling water, watch them rise and sink, rise and sink, in a slow whirl.MoreLess
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