{"id":2757,"date":"2026-09-14T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2026-09-30T22:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T22:58:53","slug":"gravy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2757","title":{"rendered":"Gravy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Monday's lunch container
transparent, calling, saucy siren,
she stands out in the office fridge
among the Tupperware 
and crushed paper bags

Sloshing at the brim, 
slick with equal parts pork fat and sauteed pride
my glass container with push-top lid
threatens to breach its borders

My husband's Sunday gravy
swims with Italian sausage
and homemade meatballs, 
swirling in a sweetness from
a secret ingredient you'll never guess 
poured in thick drippy waterfalls 
across a field of farfalle

This culinary ritual, 
a slow, steady, focused 
weekend afternoon in the kitchen
steeped in homage and herbs 
sets the stakes for the coming week

So colleagues, you can look, 
go ahead, take a peek

But please know
it's all for me.
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\u201cGravy,\u201d a Monday appreciation of Sunday gravy, written Monday, September 14, 2026 poem 257 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: “Trio of Tomatoes, Certified and otherwise,”  by Diana Ludwick \u00a9 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,782,2126,262,2130,1573,290,200,1574,2128,1572,2,2129,776],"tags":[2954,2951,2953,1815,2956,651,2959,2620,662,2958,1154,2948,2950,2960,2946,2691,2621,2955,331,2947,2952,1772,2949,2957],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-corporate","category-culinary","category-dry-humor","category-eating-and-drinking","category-generational-of-place","category-homage","category-humor","category-lineage","category-of-cooking","category-of-place","category-poems","category-recipes-for-life","category-short-form-musings","tag-all-for-me","tag-colleagues","tag-coming-week","tag-culinary","tag-farfalle","tag-husband","tag-italian","tag-late-summer","tag-lunch","tag-meatballs","tag-monday","tag-office-fridge","tag-paper-bags","tag-red-sauce","tag-san-marzano","tag-sausage","tag-september","tag-stakes","tag-sunday","tag-sunday-gravy","tag-take-a-peek","tag-tomatoes","tag-tupperware","tag-waterfalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2848,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}