National Poetry Writing Month Twelve

Prompt

Wedding Gift

After fifteen years of marriage
          I never told you, did I
the edges are dulled
          how odd I found the pairing
on the scissors from the knife set
          to cut recipes from papers?

Grandma's Kitchen Klatter columns
          found taped in a notebook
including Corn Fairfax,
          which I thought long handed-down
a family Thanksgiving tradition
          since 1952

Now I understand
          that is how you are
scissors have a food use
          expanding my vision
because you showed me how
          beyond the paper before me