41: In Your Winter Kitchen
41: In Your Winter Kitchen
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living with Alzheimer's & Other Dementias
In Your Winter Kitchen
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
~Thomas Campbell
Because of you,
and the recipe you once wrote for me
in your elegant hand,
I bought bittersweet chocolate in the store today,
hazelnut spread, and heavy cream.
In the afternoon we will bake mousse cake, warm
your house against the blowing cold and early-dark
of winter. Light from your kitchen windows will spill out
on bony trees, on tight-furled leaves
of rhododendron, and you will ask me who
I am, and I will think of
yet more things I didn’t know to ask you
when I could have,
and I will believe we can inhale the memories
drifting in the chocolate air.
~Jennifer L. Freed
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