Nutshell Kingdom: The Lima Bean Hour
2008
You do not like them but I do.
So the times when you are away
are some of my favorite hours.
I soak them overnight
in a large pot
and use the same white bowl.
hot enough
to melt three pats of butter
that I stir in with a fork
and cover with salt and pepper.
The first taste is a sliding headlong
into the gorgeous oblivion
of God's vegetable graciousness
and it is lovely.
Perhaps if you liked them
we would eat them all the time.
Perhaps if you liked them
I would never have loved you at all.
