Message to My Sistah
I just did
wat I talked about doing
wen we wuz visiting
on da smartphone.
You told me
wat you wuz eating
foa breakfast da adah day
and it kinnah inspired me.
Da last time
I ate French Toast
wuz wen I wuz living
in Hawaiʻi years ago.
So I wen actually
make some dis morning
and I topped
da tasty slices off
wit some kinamona
and some Ohio maple syrup.
I’m eating right now
while I’m tinking
about you
and looking at wun picture
of our parents
on my living room tabletop.
It’s just like
I’m in da yellow kitchen
up in Wahiawa Heights
at da old house.
Da hoʻomanaʻo is ʻono.
Da French Toast
is pretty good too.
Copyright © 2022 by Joe Balaz. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on May 2, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets.