Connor and Jack discuss Li-Young Lee's "Eating Together."
To read the poem, see below or go here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43015/eating-together-56d221af2bf26
For more on Lee: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/li-young-lee
To check out his collection Rose: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/rose-li-young-lee/1122988627
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Eating Together
By Li-Young Lee
In the steamer is the trout
seasoned with slivers of ginger,
two sprigs of green onion, and sesame oil.
We shall eat it with rice for lunch,
brothers, sister, my mother who will
taste the sweetest meat of the head,
holding it between her fingers
deftly, the way my father did
weeks ago. Then he lay down
to sleep like a snow-covered road
winding through pines older than him,
without any travelers, and lonely for no one.
