Poetry by M.S. Rooney
to meet the one
who invented the spoon, that
mouth-sized bowl, that
stirrer of soups, that
gatherer of rain water
from spring puddles.
It doesn’t seem a thing
you would think to invent
just for yourself.
After all, a stick is quick and sure,
fingers do just fine, and
you can drain a big bowl
with just one tilt.
But for the other,
the child, the beloved,
how we must have yearned
for something more shapely,
more tender, to hold,
to offer,
again and again.
M.S. Rooney lives in Sonoma, California with poet Dan Noreen. Her work appears in journals including The Blue Mountain Review, Illuminations, Leaping Clear and Pensive Journal, and anthologies including A Walk with Nature: Poetic Encounters that Nourish the Soul. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
