Silver dome over eggs, au plat, medium cooked. Coffee pot. Jus d’orange frais covered by a frilled paper cap.
Read MoreOn a silver platter
Posts by Yara Zgheib
On the Classifieds Page
Missing, since 2020,
Read MoreOn a magic carpet
“It’s the old joke about the magic carpet or the broomstick. That’s how poor people used to make journeys, because they couldn’t afford to make them literally.”
Read MoreOn the Seine
“Il était une fois la Seine, Il était une fois la vie.” – Jacques Prévert
Read MoreOn the water
children imitating cormorants
are even more wonderful
than cormorants
– Kubayashi Issa
On the curriculum
And you can leap really high on the moon; there is less gravity.
Read MoreOn a field
Then, the greatest democratizer, the football, appears.
Read MoreOn Thursday night, after hours
“Come out—all of you! This is too beautiful to miss!’”
Read MoreOn the menu
Faces are soft. Dessert is soft. Cottony, fluffy soft, and just a bit jiggly, bit sweet.
Read MoreOn a mountain
Keep mending that roof, filling those baskets. Going. On boats, on horses, on foot. On picnics, even in January snow and darkness.
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