The byline of MariJean Sanders frequently appears on the “pages” of GraceConnect — either on this site, in the GraceConnect eNews, or in the GraceConnect magazine. She’s a gifted writer with a variety of creative interests, including baking. This week she was recognized on the literary food blog, Eat this Poem. MariJean, who is a recent English and Journalism graduate from Grace College, won second place in the blog’s contest with her poem, “Translation.” A portion of the poem appears below. Click here to read the complete poem. Scroll down the post to read an interview with MariJean, to download the entire anthology of poetry, or try the recipe for Pumpkin Snickerdoodles.
TRANSLATION
You should know
we resort to cookies
when we run out of words.
when saying is too sharp
or too incoherent –
here have some
extra-stuffed chocolate chip, pumpkin-buttermilk
seven layer snickerdoodle
(yes let’s fill you up with too much sweet –
as if you really need it-)
it’s maternal instinct, maybe.
Or perhaps we just fail at loving,
and all we’ve got to hide behind now, our
last language
is coded for your tastebuds, masterpiece-by-the-dozen
disappear-by-the-dozen…
(maybe you missed it)
so
allow me to translate.