chunks in the salad

here is latelife in miniature. / coffee cup, coffee, / salad vessel and salad / are all as new as this year. // thanks to a career change / a prep cook’s sensibility / put the grater aside / and used a food chopper and a ten-count chop / on the carrots / to ensure there would be chunks / in the salad / and not the mundane confetti / that is the norm. also, / organic blue agave sweetener stood in for splenda / and the raisin-to-carrot ratio / was upped approximately 20%. // it was a quiet, spectacular treat, / drinking sumatran-blend coffee / and eating a poshish salad / from vessels made recently / by the prepcook-poet-potter-bonvivant. // life changes us when we change / our lives.