Chili

First, cut the onion and garlic
and fry them until fragrant
then, add the vegetables,
multicolored, one by one,
stir and toss and stir
then add beans,
black red white
and top off
with spices.

The recipe sounds simple
but the flavor in chili
comes from kitchen-play:
from-behind-hugs
and shared tasting
off little spoons,
the warmth of company
as the stew bubbles,
thickens, and entices
taste buds to try.

At the dinner table,
nothing beats two steaming bowls
sprinkled with parmesan
eaten in appreciative murmurs
of the heat on the tongue
while snow falls freshly
to the ground.