In Appreciation of Lunch

A gratitude of thanks for all the lunches out there.

Thank you rice potatoes and a little bit of salt
Thank you pepper spicey drawing tongue from halt
to long stomach passage, to the rest of mind
to sweet gifts of calories, wilds above the mine 

when this lunch is ready I can feel the winds subside
earth rise up to swallow the elements in their guise
greens and starches gathered, densified over time
the richness of nutrition, revolutionary green lime

power at these fork tines, hung and packaged forth
preservations by salt and sugar as if the frozen north
held these dearest molecules in status quiet and steady
desiccated membranes: oil flushed meal ready

basics of nutrition, hard starch lay me low
salt and spice uplifting, brief nap at the bow
aft a calm arising, focused and aware 
routines of calm abiding, advantage to the lair

When i feed myself, i feed the entire field
the range of beings living, dependent on the yield
from all the fields of earth, all the fields through space
of their nutritious supply for body-mind to lace