Writer's Excerpts

the menu in my heart is all wrong

by Chang Liu

published in TOK: Writing the New Toronto - Book 5

my stare
goes from the plate
to the dainty language on the menu Golden Baskets, a tiny quintet
of brittle pastry shells...
then back to my plate,

and I wonder what my spice-obsessed
hawker-stall friends in Bangkok would think
of defrosted veggies baked in cardboard-stiff pastry cups
on the Danforth, limits of Greektown,
middle of a snowstorm...

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