With fruit and flowers the board is decked, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The wine and laughter flow; I'll not complain&mdash;could one expect &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;So dull a world to know? You look across the fruit and flowers, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;My glance your glances find.&mdash; It is our secret, only ours, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Since all the world is blind.

At a Dinner Party

Good poems, like good food, excite the senses and nourish the soul. From the dinner party to the picnic, food is at the center of work by Nikki Giovanni, Mark Strand, William Carlos Williams, and others. As part of your balanced diet, be fed and filled by these poems that celebrate eating, feasting, musing and consuming.

Da Capo

The Vegetable Air

To a Poor Old Woman

With strawberries we filled a tray

Man Eating

I Wrote a Good Omelet

Potpourri

Picnic Boat

Bleezer's Ice Cream

Excerpt from The Martyrology

Eating Poetry

Fishmonger

To Fill Your Belly and Your Cup: Poems that Nourish