We Will Remember Always What We See

I add red onions and bell peppers, red
And green, with chunks of carrots, celery,
Long strips of lamb, basmati rice, slowly,
Stir very gently. I do as you said,
Cook mainly for the stomach, but once fed
We will remember always what we see
In the blue bowl you generously gave me
When I had food but no dishes or bed.

The world is wide, full of good people, hearts
As full as bakers’ ovens are at dawn,
Like early birds on a wide, worm-strewn lawn.
These colours are the place our whole life starts;
I never trained in the culinary arts
Or reading minds, but colour spurs us on.