Green Soup by Tabitha Dial

One Poem Only · Oct 29, 2025 · 1m

Green Soup

Tabitha Dial

(Halloween Night 2020)

From a quiet keeping-space,

I promise my motherghost

to create meals and music.

Even if from

dry bones and tangled memories,

my vow as I unstem kale and spinach,

add it to the copperlined pot with green onion, cilantro,

yukon golds and snap peas.

Remember when I made your favorite soup

last year? I caramelize the onions and recall

that patient pot.

I've spent almost 2 hours at the stove, there's

only a little more: the garlic and ginger

sizzle in the pan, then slide into the pot. Another 10 minutes.

I add the broth, taste. I follow the recipe,

as…