What gathers around the table
The meal completes the circle
Twenty hands eat from one basket, and no one leaves as a stranger.
Stews deepen with the hours
A berbere wat that simmered six hours holds flavours thirty minutes cannot reach.
One surface holds everything
Injera is plate and portion both — every stew soaks in, nothing is lost.
Coffee closes what food opened
Green beans roasted by hand, poured three times from a clay jebena.