Reduction Sauce
Standing in the kitchen.
watching
Cradling a glass of merlot.
watching
Her hands, stirring, the reduction sauce.
She stirs,
I am reduced in thought.
Thoughts of those hands.
Holding children.
Holding me.
Those hands have held my head in tears.
In love.
watching.
Those hands have shaped me.
I am the sauce.
reduced to awe.
elated to be in her vessel.
