Chicken Noodle Soup My windowsill sprouts buds of lantana, blue glories in a skyline of jade vases, lily-painted pottery from our travels stuffed with watercolor brushes. Soft vines hover and shadow bananas in the blue and white toile of grandmom’s porcelain. I’ve heaped boiled chicken cubes, stacked the cans of tomatoes near the stove.
The noodles, broth, carrots, onions...