Comfort Food, by Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon

salted Welsh butter on fresh crispy bread
grandmothers’ plated fruit-pies oozing
apples, rhubarb or ruby redcurrants
sweet custard yellow as fresh sunflowers
salted nuts with pints of chilled lemonade
mushrooms on toast by moonlight at midnight
dry white wine lemon-tart on the palate
hot chocolate warming numb winter fingers
sitting next to log fires lit to roast chestnuts
baked potatoes cooked in bonfires’ ashes
melting ice-cream licked in summer heatwaves
mackerel grilled crisp on beach barbeques
pasta creamy-slick in carbonara sauce
avocado halves cupping vinaigrette
food nourishes memories nourish food
floods life with sharing – nostalgia and joy.