hunger (n.)
“from Proto-Germanic hungraz
(source also of Old Frisian hunger
Old Saxon hungar
Old High German hungar
Old Norse hunger
German hunger
Dutch hunger
Gothic huhrus)
probably from PIE root kenk-
‘to suffer or thirst’
(source also of Sanskrit kotate ‘to thirst’
Lithuanian kanka ‘pain, ache;
torment, affliction’)
Greek kagkanos
‘drying’
from c 1200 as
‘a strong or eager desire’
(originally spiritual).” *
what is this hunger
and where
that we seek to eradicate
or purge or satisfy
that we tumble toward
as the means to an end
that we devour as the answer
to life itself
may my hunger be simple
a teaspoon of raspberry sorbet
sunlight through morning fog
a half-spoken whisper
the hand on the cup of my back
tending the tangled root there
a good night’s sleep
warm water
a word that arrives like birdsong
blessing the day with
soft consonants
long vowels
*opening text from https://www.etymonline.com/word/hungry
