You were in the kitchen
and I was upstairs
I could hear you clanging
mixing and sizzling
opening and closing
the fridge, but
what made me
the happiest girl
were the garlic and onions
wafting up the staircase
promising dinner
to my nose
who promptly whispered it
to my stomach
as I finished my homework
on the old Smith Corona
you bought me
at a yard sale
for two dollars
all of which
made me feel
incredibly warm and loved.
Mom & I
Lupita Eyde-Tucker is a bilingual poet and translator raised in New Jersey and Guayaquil, Ecuador. She has studied poetry at Bread Loaf, is a Fellow at The Watering Hole, and the winner of the 2019 Betty Gabehart Prize for Poetry. She was selected as an AWP Writer to Writer Mentee by poet Maggie Smith. In 2017 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2020 her poetry has been named finalist in the Sewanee Review Poetry Contest, Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, River Heron Review Poetry Prize, Black River Chapbook Competition, and Frontier Poetry's Chapbook Contest. Additionally, she was a semi-finalist in the 92Y's Discovery Prize, and Sappho Poetry Prize by Palette Poetry.