Symptoms may include the loss
of taste and smell
So we loaded our ovens with
banana breads, cakes
Eggs, cinnamon, vanilla
In resistance – we bake
Captured in film, first attempts
In resistance. We bake.
Despite the cruelty of
Symptoms, diseases and death
We say grace
to the holy carbs
Thank you Lord for the sense of smell
Thank you Lord for the sense of taste
and Thank you Lord
For this delicious morsel
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Sayari Debnath reads and sometimes she writes but mostly she talks to my cats. She is enthusiastic about Renaissance paintings and a lover of sunflowers. She hopes that she gets to write a book some day.
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