Mushy Peas

Seven months have never seemed

Such a long time

As it did that night.

Fish n’ chips

Have never tasted so good.

Whether to laugh….

Or cry

I didn’t know

As the taste of England

Reached my tongue

In a place so familiar

Yet so different.

A taste of home

Thousands of miles away

Could it be so far?

Could it really be so long

Since those last mushy peas?

  

12^th December 1998, Edna, Texas, United States of America.