America, A Serving By Danny P. Barbare

Like a plate of food, my America

is

collards, black eye peas

cornbread, and sweet potatoes

but mostly all around

it is like a dessert

on a saucer

a slice of sweet apple pie

says the poet

I serve to each and everyone, that

is America, the light of liberty like

a fork.


Danny P. Barbare resides in the Upstate of the Carolinas. His poetry has recently appeared in Fredericksburg Literary & Art Review. He attended Greenville Technical College.